The End of Liberal Finance? The Changing Paradigm of Global Financial Governance

Millennium - Journal of International Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 797-825

  Nesvetailova, Anastasia ^a   Palan, Ronen ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anglo Saxon capitalism; crisis; Europe; finance; geopolitics; hegemony; neoliberalism; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649460967     PISSN: 03058298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0305829810364275     Document Type: Article

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