Crisis management policy. How discourses shape academic-political actors

On the Horizon

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 231-245

  Maesse, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural political economy; Discourse analysis; Economic expert discourse; Economic experts; Economic sociology; Economics; Financial crisis; Governmentality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938684741     PISSN: 10748121     EISSN: 20541708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/OTH-05-2015-0016     Document Type: Article

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