How you stand depends on how we see: International capital mobility as social fact

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 457-485

  Chwieroth, Jeffrey M ^a,b   Sinclair, Timothy J ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

beliefs; brute facts; financial crises; institutions; International capital mobility; social facts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878164284     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2012.675875     Document Type: Article

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