Making sense of financialization

Socio-Economic Review

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 99-129

  van der Zwan, Natascha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Economic systems; Financial markets; Financialization; Institutional change; Multidisciplinary review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892450633     PISSN: 14751461     EISSN: 1475147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwt020     Document Type: Article

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