The consumer-driven economy at a crossroads

Business Economics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 32-42

  Yerex, Robert P ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

consumer behavior; credit; debt; rationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863789650     PISSN: 0007666X     EISSN: 1554432X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/be.2010.40     Document Type: Article

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