REMAKING RETIREMENT INVESTORS: Behavioural economics and defined-contribution occupational pensions

Journal of Cultural Economy

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 473-488

  Langley, Paul ^a   Leaver, Adam ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

apparatus of security; behavioural economics; defined contribution pensions; life style and target date funds; retirement investors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865462659     PISSN: 17530350     EISSN: 17530369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.691893     Document Type: Article

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