From financial crisis to world-slump: Accumulation, financialisation, and the global slowdown

Historical Materialism

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 35-83

  McNally, David ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Economic Crisis; Financialisation; Overaccumulation; Value Struggles; World Money

Indexed keywords

EID: 68549118946     PISSN: 14654466     EISSN: 1569206X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156920609X436117     Document Type: Article

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