US financial power in crisis

Historical Materialism

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 3-34

  Konings, Martijn ^a   Panitch, Leo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Finance; Globalisation; Imperialism; Subprime crisis; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 67449120628     PISSN: 14654466     EISSN: 1569206X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156920608X357710     Document Type: Article

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