Symbolic products: Prestige, pride and identity goods

Theory and Decision

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 53-77

  Khalil, Elias L ^a  

^a Amer Inst for Economic Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Distorted tastes; Identity and reification; Normal tastes; Prestige and Vanity; Pride and deference; Selfhood; Substantive products; Substantive utility; Symbolic products; Symbolic utility; Time frame context of assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002667615     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005223607947     Document Type: Article

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