Changing your role models: Social learning and the Engel curve

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 957-965

  Cordes, Christian ^a  

^a Department of Archaeology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consumer behavior; Cultural evolution; Demand theory; Engel curve; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349270584     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2009.06.012     Document Type: Article

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