An'unproductive labour' view of finance

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1479-1496

  Barba, Aldo ^a   de Vivo, Giancarlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Derivatives; Financial sector; Productive and unproductive labour

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; FINANCIAL PROVISION; FINANCIAL SERVICES; GAMBLING; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 84871601946     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/bes048     Document Type: Article

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