Policy ethnography and conservative transition from plan to market: The construction of policy rationalities and the "intellectual limitations of leading comrades"

International Journal of Social Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 659-678

  Fforde, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Economic reform; Ethnography; Marxist economics; Policy; Transition management

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649992481     PISSN: 03068293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03068290910956903     Document Type: Article

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