Human nature, the environment, and behaviour: Explaining the scope and geographical scale of financial decision-making

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 159-173

  Clark, Gordon L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognition; Context; Economic geography; Finance; Human nature

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; FINANCE; FINANCIAL CRISIS; PENSION SYSTEM; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 77955758216     PISSN: 04353684     EISSN: 14680467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0467.2010.00340.x     Document Type: Article

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