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Chapter Ten - Credit ratings and global economic governance: Non-price valuation in financial markets

from Part Three - Structuring fields: Market dominance, complementarity and differentiation in complex institutional ecologies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2016

By
Bruce G. Carruthers
Edited by
Grégoire Mallard  and
Jérôme Sgard
Grégoire Mallard
Affiliation:
Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
Jérôme Sgard
Affiliation:
Sciences Po, Paris
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Contractual Knowledge
One Hundred Years of Legal Experimentation in Global Markets
 , pp. 324 - 349
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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