Shadow Europe: Alternative European financial geographies

Growth and Change

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 304-327

  Brown, Ed ^a   Cloke, Jon ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; FINANCIAL MARKET; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY;

EID: 34250189897     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2007.00368.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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