Cutting government deficits: Economic science or class war?

Capital & Class

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 125-137

  Radice, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

class rule; Keynesianism; neoliberalism; public finances

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993711336     PISSN: 03098168     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309816810389593     Document Type: Article

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