ERIC Number: ED297136
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1988
Pages: 874
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ISBN: ISBN-0-945857-00-4
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The Frontier of Research in the Consumer Interest. Proceedings of the International Conference on Research in the Consumer Interest (Racine, Wisconsin, August 16-19, 1986).
Maynes, E. Scott, Ed.; And Others
The following papers are included: "JFK's Four Consumer Rights" (Lampman); "Product Safety" (Gerner); "Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Product Safety Regulation" (Crandall); "CPCS's Voluntary Standards" (Ault); "Consumer Safety and Issue Emergence Process" (Mayer); "Reflections on Research in the Consumer Interest" (Nelson); "Concept of Quality" (Curry); "Price Quality Relationship" (Geistfeld); "Environmental Considerations and Assessment of Quality" (Huttenrauch); "Weights, Cardinality, and Scaling in Assessing Quality" (Maynes); "Information Processing from Consumer's Perspective" (Russo); "Overlooked Mechanisms for Conveying Information to Consumers" (Mazis); "Determinants of Information Use" (Olshavsky); "Economics of Information in Consumer Markets" (Ippolito); "Economics of Information" (Ratchford); "Consumer Choice Is More than Search" (Morgan); "An Electronic Future?" (Mitchell); "New Technologies in Consumer Information" (Talarzyck); "Marketing Context of Consumer Choice" (Wilkie); "International Trade" (Dardis); "International Trade and Trade-Offs for Third World Consumers" (Reich); "International Trade" (Allain); "International Trade and Trade-Offs for Third World Consumers" (Kinsey); "Increasing Competition through Deregulation" (Kushman); "Case for Minimizing Regulation" (Clarkson); "Financial Services" (Durkin); "Privatization, Competition and Airline Deregulation" (Mitchell); "Issues in Regulation and Deregulation" (Nelson); "Organization of Consumer Movement" (Herrmann et al.); "Why Consumer Education in Japan?" (Imai); "Consumer Organization and Representation in Developed World" (Sand); "Consumer Organization and Representation in Developing Countries" (Allain); "Consumer Policy and European Economic Community" (Orsini); "Consumer Problems" (Thorelli); "Salient Issues in Current European Consumer Policy Research" (Orlander); "Time for a Wingspread" (Kerton); "Self-Fulfillment, Consumer Policy and Consumer Research" (Scherhorn); "Corporate Consumer Affairs Departments" (Fornell); "Consumer Affairs" (Fernstrom); "Consumer Affairs" (Vawter); "Consumer Affairs Professionals and the Consumer Interest" (McKaig); "Advertising" (Eastwood); "Market Research in the Consumer Interest" (Imowitz); "Marketing Research as a Dialogue" (Levy); "How Can Marketing Research Contribute to Consumer Interest?" (Murphy); "Survey Research on Behalf of Consumer" (Warren); "Consumer Complaints and Redress" (Andreasen); "Consumer Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction and Consumer Interest" (Hunt); "Disappearance of Consumer from Modern Products Liability Law" (Priest); "Role of Secondary Schools" (Green); "Role of Federal Government" (Mohr); "Role of Cooperative Extension" (Turner); and "Content of College-University Course in Consumer Education" (Robinson). (MN)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advertising, Comparative Analysis, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Consumer Protection, Consumer Science, Economic Research, Educational Needs, Educational Research, Federal Regulation, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Information Dissemination, Interest Research, International Trade, Legal Responsibility, Marketing, Postsecondary Education, School Role, Secondary Education
American Council on Consumer Interests, 240 Stanley Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 ($22.00; 10 or more--$19.80 each).
Publication Type: Collected Works - Proceedings; Reports - Research; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: American Council on Consumer Interests, Columbia, MO.
Identifiers - Location: Japan
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