Prelude to the Crisis: The US Treasury, Financial Markets and ‘Failure Containment’

Critical Sociology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 781-793

  Panitch, Leo ^a   Gindin, Sam ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

American state; crises; finance; IMF; mortgage credit; treasury

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907206912     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0896920513483150     Document Type: Article

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