The Practicalities of Being Inaccurate: Steps Toward the Social Geography of Financial Risk Management

Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local

Volumn 9780199557431, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Millo, Yuval ^a   MacKenzie, Donald ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Financial derivatives; Global finance; Inaccuracy; Risk management; Social geography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959882191     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199557431.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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