Financial wizardry and the Golden City: Tracking the financial crisis through Pforzheim, Germany

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 195-208

  Hendrikse, Reijer P ^a   Sidaway, James D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Crisis; Derivatives; Finance; Germany; Scale; Varieties of capitalism

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; FINANCIAL CRISIS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; GERMANY; PFORZHEIM;

EID: 84896135995     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tran.12024     Document Type: Article

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