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1982 National Conference on Product Safety: final report

1982 National Conference on Product Safety: final report

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

... Kelly Consumer Information Specialist Consumer Information Center J. C. Kenaston, Jr. Director McDonald's Corporation Sandra Kerst Manager of Government Relations Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers Gerald S. Kirschbaum ...
An Epidemic Of Obesity Myths

An Epidemic Of Obesity Myths

Center for Consumer Freedom

1 —Ellen Ruppel Shell, author of The Hungry Gene In July 2004, the decades- long effort to have obesity declared a “disease” scored a major victory when a government rule change allowed Medicare to pay for prescription diet pills, bariatric ...
Digitalizing Consumption: How Devices Shape Consumer Culture

Digitalizing Consumption: How Devices Shape Consumer Culture

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In 1991, Morris Holbrook, the well-known consumer researcher, published a paper entitled, “From the Log of a Consumer Researcher: Reflections on the Odyssey.” Holbrook reported his personal experiences as a participant in the Consumer ...
Getting Prices Right: The Debate Over the Consumer Price Index

Getting Prices Right: The Debate Over the Consumer Price Index

Dean Baker

Getting Prices Right presents the work at the center of this debate - the report of the congressionally appointed Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index, popularly known as the Boskin Commission - and critically evaluates its ...
The Civil War and the Press

The Civil War and the Press

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29 Republican Newspapers and Freedom of the Press in the Reconstruction South, 1865-1877 Richard H. Abbott Eastern Michigan University Discussions of freedom of the press customarily center on the way governments repress, censor,  ...
Consumer behavior, an integrated framework

Consumer behavior, an integrated framework

Charles Glenn Walters

The foundation for consumer behavior; Macro consumer behavior; Micro consumer behavior.
The Freedom House

The Freedom House

Rick Wallenbrock

During the tail end of the Vietnam War, the US Army Europe, faced with a large drug problem among soldiers stationed in Germany, opens the Freedom House, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center.
The frontier of research in the consumer interest: ...

The frontier of research in the consumer interest: ...

American Council on Consumer Interests

proceedings of the International Conference on Research in the Consumer Interest American Council on Consumer Interests E. Scott Maynes. ABOUT THE AUTHOR E. Scott Mavnes is Professor in the Department of Consumer Economics ...
Freedom from Addiction: The Chopra Center Method for ...

Freedom from Addiction: The Chopra Center Method for ...

Deepak Chopra

The Chopra Center Method for Overcoming Destructive Habits Deepak Chopra, David Simon, M.D. ... Chopra Center cofounder and medical director David Simon, M.D., and bestselling author and personal-growth expert Deepak Chopra  ...
Consumer Behavior in Fashion

Consumer Behavior in Fashion

Michael R. Solomon

An exploration of the social psychology of consumer behaviour in relation to clothing, this title is based on up-to-date literature and research in the field, using everyday examples to illustrate concepts such as consumer dynamics, ...
Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the ...

Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the ...

Paul Harvey

In a sweeping analysis of religion in the post-Civil War and twentieth-century South, Freedom's Coming puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology ...
On Becoming a Consumer: The Development of Consumer Behavior ...

On Becoming a Consumer: The Development of Consumer Behavior ...

James U. McNeal

The book demonstrates how consumer development is intertwined with cognitive and motor development; each of the three dependent on the other two.
Decoding Modern Consumer Societies

Decoding Modern Consumer Societies

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... “Consumption in ModernSocial Thought,”in Consumer Societyin AmericanHistory, ed. Lawrence B. Glickman (Ithaca, NY, 1999), 130–46; LawrenceB.Glickman, Buying Power: AHistory of Consumer Activism in America ( Chicago,2009). 33.
Census Bureau Programs to Measure Consumer Purchase ...

Census Bureau Programs to Measure Consumer Purchase ...

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7 Two years later, E. Scott Maynes updated Mueller's results by using 39 observations from the period 1952-1965. Maynes found that the SRC Index of Consumer Attitudes was significant in explaining the variation in aggregate consumer ...
Consumer Culture Theory

Consumer Culture Theory

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The chapters in this volume are selected from the best papers presented at the 11th Annual Consumer Culture Theory Conference held in Lille, France in July 2016. They represent the cutting edge in qualitative consumer research.
Enhancing consumer choice: proceedings of the Second ...

Enhancing consumer choice: proceedings of the Second ...

Robert N. Mayer

References Curry, David J. (1988), "The Concept of Quality: New Insights, Unanswered Questions," in The Frontier of Research in the Consumer Interest, E. Scott Maynes, ed. Columbia, MO American Council on Consumer Interests. Dickinson ...
Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United ...

Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United ...

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Though its importance is uncontestable, the role of necessity in consumer culture has rarely been explored. Indeed, it has been argued that where necessity reigns, consumer culture is anemic. This volume demonstrates otherwise.
Consumer Behavior

Consumer Behavior

Roger D. Blackwell

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR, 10e offers a practical, business approach, designed to help students apply consumer behavior principles to their studies in business and marketing, to their future business careers, and also to their private lives, as ...
Ontology and Ethics in Sartre's Early Philosophy

Ontology and Ethics in Sartre's Early Philosophy

Yiwei Zheng

In his book Freedom as a Value: A Critique of the Ethical Theory of Jean-Paul Sartre,7 David Detmer adopted a better approach. Detmer distinguished two sorts of freedom: "practical freedom" and "ontological freedom."8 Practical freedom is ...
Marketing Apocalypse: Eschatology, Escapology and the ...

Marketing Apocalypse: Eschatology, Escapology and the ...

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Holbrook, Morris B. (1980), 'Some Preliminary Notes on Research in Consumer Esthetics', in J. C. Olson (ed.), Advances in Consumer Research, vol. 7, Association for Consumer Research, Ann Arbor, MI, pp. 104-8. Holbrook, Morris B. (1984), ...
Marketing Apocalypse: Eschatology, Escapology and the ...

Marketing Apocalypse: Eschatology, Escapology and the ...

Stephen Brown

Holbrook, Morris B. (1980), 'Some Preliminary Notes on Research in Consumer Esthetics', in J. C. Olson (ed.), Advances in Consumer Research, vol. 7, Association for Consumer Research, Ann Arbor, MI, pp. 104-8. Holbrook, Morris B. (1984), ...
Culture and Consumption II: Markets, Meaning, and Brand ...

Culture and Consumption II: Markets, Meaning, and Brand ...

Grant David McCracken

Elizabeth Hirschman and Morris B. Holbrook, 4-6. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Association for Consumer Research. . 1985. "Scientific Style and the Conduct of Consumer Research." Journal of Consumer Research 12, no. 2 (September): 225-239. . 1986 ...
Cut the Cord!: The Consumer''s Guide to VoIP

Cut the Cord!: The Consumer''s Guide to VoIP

Jerri L. Ledford

The only book dedicated solely to consumer Internet phone services, "Cut the Cord! The Consumer''s Guide to VoIP" will also feature a supporting web site and blog with product and service comparisons and additional helpful information.
The Smart Canadian's Guide to Saving Money: Pat Foran is On ...

The Smart Canadian's Guide to Saving Money: Pat Foran is On ...

Pat Foran

Pat Foran is seen by millions of Canadians each week as the Consumer Reporter for CFTO News, and Consumer Expert on CTV’s Canada AM. His “Consumer Alert” segment is currently on CFTO’s noon, six o’clock and eleven-thirty newscasts ...
Consumer protection, gains and setbacks

Consumer protection, gains and setbacks

Congressional Quarterly, inc

Assesses the impact of the consumer movement on access to many services and industries
Economics and Consumer Behavior

Economics and Consumer Behavior

Angus Deaton

This classic text has introduced generations of students to the economic theory of consumer behaviour.
Watchdogs and Whistleblowers: A Reference Guide to Consumer ...

Watchdogs and Whistleblowers: A Reference Guide to Consumer ...

Robert N. Mayer

Robert Herrmann, Stewart Lee, Scott Maynes, Helen Nelson, and Norman Silber — have contributed their time and ... in the Consumer Interest (1988), edited by E. Scott Maynes; and Enhancing Consumer Choice (1991), edited by Robert N.
Freedom in the World 2016: The

Freedom in the World 2016: The

Freedom House

Freedom in the World is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties.

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