'Financial globalisation' and the 'crisis': A critical assessment and 'what is to be done'?

New Political Economy

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 127-145

  Thompson, Grahame F ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contagion; Distributed preparedness for resilience; Events; Financial crisis; Financial globalisation; Money supply; Regulation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FINANCIAL MARKET; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; GLOBAL ECONOMY; GLOBALIZATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH;

EID: 77951157269     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: 14699923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563460903553707     Document Type: Article

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