What's money worth? Determinants of the subjective value of money

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 443-464

  Brandstätter, Eduard ^a   Brandstätter, Hermann ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Marginal utility; Money; Personality traits; Psychophysical measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030209538     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-4870(96)00019-0     Document Type: Article

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