Governing economic futures through the war on inflation

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1536-1553

  McCormack, Derek P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affective economies; Economic geography; Expectations; Futures; Inflation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC IMPACT; INFLATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865189642     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a44281     Document Type: Article

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