Derivatives as weapons of mass deception and elite contestation: The case of FIAT

Financial Cultures and Crisis Dynamics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 208-228

  Lagna, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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