Too Big to Bail: The "Paulson Put," Presidential Politics, and the Global Financial Meltdown: Part II: Fatal Reversal—Single Payer and Back

International Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 5-45

  Ferguson, Thomas ^a   Johnson, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b US Senate   (United States)

Author keywords

bank regulation; financial crisis; investment banks; political economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85055405019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15580970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/IJP0891-1916380201     Document Type: Article

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