Micro- or macro-moralities? Economic discourses and policy possibilities

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 609-631

  Best, Jacqueline ^a   Widmaier, Wesley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Finance; Globalization; Keynesian macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Monetary policy; New classical theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747041101     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290600839881     Document Type: Review

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