The politics of economic policy making in Britain: A re-assessment of the 1976 IMF Crisis

Politics and Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 971-994

  Rogers, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; CURRENCY MARKET; ECONOMIC POLICY; IMF; PERCEPTION; POLICY MAKING; POLICY REFORM; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL INTEGRATION; STATE ROLE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 70449490643     PISSN: 15555623     EISSN: 17471346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-1346.2009.00207.x     Document Type: Article

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