Deriving the Engel curve: Pierre Bourdieu and the social critique of Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 393-406

  Trigg, Andrew B ^a  

^a Open University

Author keywords

Bourdieu; Consumption; Culture; Engel curve; Evolutionary theory; Hierarchy of needs; Maslow; Post Keynesian

Indexed keywords

EID: 6344223329     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000253987     Document Type: Article

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