Consumer Capitalism : : Politics, Product Markets, and Firm Strategy in France and Germany / / Gunnar Trumbull.
"The unfettered marketplace, in which uncertainty rules and the admonition caveat emptor ('let the buyer beware') dictates each consumer decision, has today virtually disappeared. Consumers have become the focus of intensive economic policymaking designed to protect them from the risk...
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Trumbull, Gunnar, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Consumer Capitalism : Politics, Product Markets, and Firm Strategy in France and Germany / Gunnar Trumbull. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2006 1 online resource (208 p.) : 3 tables, 3 charts/graphs, 1 line drawing text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Cornell Studies in Political Economy Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. The Rise of Consumer Capitalism -- 2. Consumption Contested -- 3. The Organized Consumer -- 4. Consumer Risk -- 5. Consumer Information -- 6. Standards versus Contracts -- 7. Price and Quality -- 8. The Consumer as Citizen -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "The unfettered marketplace, in which uncertainty rules and the admonition caveat emptor ('let the buyer beware') dictates each consumer decision, has today virtually disappeared. Consumers have become the focus of intensive economic policymaking designed to protect them from the risks and disappointments of the market. Today, arguably no other economic actor in the advanced industrial countries-not the investor, not the worker, not the welfare recipient-enjoys a more thorough set of legal and institutional protections than the modern consumer when he or she enters the corner store."-from the IntroductionGunnar Trumbull investigates the origins of national systems of consumer protection in France and Germany, where, in the early 1970s, consumer groups and producers organized to advance their own ideas about the identity and interests of the affluent consumer. Through a comparison of eight areas of policy-product liability law, product safety standards and recall, misleading advertising, comparative product tests, product labeling, quality standards, consumer contracts, and pricing-Trumbull shows that different conceptions of the consumer interest emerged in the two countries. The result was the development of distinctive national consumption regimes, which have in turn influenced the market strategies of domestic producers. Trumbull's findings help to clarify distinctive national approaches to recent product crises-including cases of BSE and genetically modified foods. His research suggests that, in the age of consumer capitalism, national competitiveness may hinge not only on endowments of labor and capital, but also on the institutional forms of national consumption. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) General Economics. Political Science & Political History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801443824 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501730030 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501730030 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501730030/original |
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