From finance to green technology activist states, geopolitical finance and hybrid neoliberalism

After the Crisis: Rethinking Finance

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 81-100

  Caprotti, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

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