The aging consumer and intergenerational transmission of cherished possessions

The Aging Consumer: Perspectives From Psychology and Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 149-172

  Curasi, Carolyn Folkman ^a   Price, Linda L ^b   Arnould, Eric J ^c  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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