Financialization, finance rationality and the role of media in Australia

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 415-433

  Greenfield, Cathy ^a   Williams, Peter ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Economic discourses; Genealogy; Market populism; Neoliberalism; Television

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247576650     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443707076183     Document Type: Review

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