Lay people's cognitive models of the economy

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-38

  Williamson, Maureen R ^a   Wearing, Alexander J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive economic modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030121897     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-4870(95)00033-X     Document Type: Article

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