Consumer culture and the culture of poverty: Implications for marketingtheory and practice

Marketing Theory

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 273-293

  Hill, Ronald Paul ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

consumer culture; culture of poverty; marketing theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010931850     PISSN: 14705931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470593102002003279     Document Type: Article

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