Beyond Supply and Demand: A Political-Economic Conceptual Model

Governance by Indicators: Global Power through Quantification and Rankings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Büthe, Tim ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demand; Long term disequilibrium; Market guidelines; Political contexts; Political economy model; Private producers; Stakeholders; Supply

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920502166     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658244.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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