Money Games: Currencies and Power in the Contemporary World Economy

The Point is to Change it: Geographies of Hope and Survival in an Age of Crisis

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 214-238

  Agnew, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exchange rates; Money games; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885968416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444397352.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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