The god that failed: Free market fundamentalism and the lehman bankruptcy

Economists' Voice

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Ferguson, Thomas ^a   Johnson, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Roosevelt Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Bernanke; Financial crisis; Lehman; Paulson

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249139984     PISSN: 15533832     EISSN: 15533832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1695     Document Type: Article

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