Financialised capitalism: Crisis and financial expropriation

Historical Materialism

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 114-148

  Lapavitsas, Costas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bank; Crisis; Financial expropriation; Financialisation; Rentier

Indexed keywords

EID: 68549099812     PISSN: 14654466     EISSN: 1569206X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156920609X436153     Document Type: Article

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