Economics, psychology and the history of consumer choice theory

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 633-648

  Hands, D Wade ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviourism; Cardinal; Consumer choice theory; Ordinal; Psychology; Revealed preference; Robbins; Samuelson; Slutsky

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; HISTORY; PSYCHOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 77952189231     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/bep045     Document Type: Review

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