Hilferding's finance capital versus wal-mart world: Disaggregating the dollar's hegemony

Perspectives on Global Development and Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 315-346

  Nowell, Gregory P ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Banking; Free trade; Gold standard; Hilferding; Imperialism; Keynes; Wal mart

Indexed keywords

BANKING; CAPITALISM; FREE TRADE; IMPERIALISM; KEYNESIAN THEORY; MONOPOLY;

EID: 74549130599     PISSN: 15691500     EISSN: 15691497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156914909X423917     Document Type: Article

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