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Consumers, Policy and the Environment

A Tribute to Folke Ölander

  • The editors and authors are among the world’s leading scholars in the field of consumers and consumerism

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. The Consumer Image over the Centuries

    • Karl-Erik Wärneryd
    Pages 37-63
  3. Compulsive Buying as a Consumer Policy Issue in East and West Germany

    • Michael Neuner, Gerhard Raab, Lucia A. Reisch
    Pages 89-114
  4. Peripheral Cues in Advertising and Consumer Policy

    • Claes-Robert Julander, Magnus Söderlund
    Pages 181-201
  5. Marketing: A Consumer Disaster?

    • E. Scott Maynes
    Pages 203-215
  6. Do Better Companies Provide Better Products?

    • Heiner Imkamp
    Pages 217-232
  7. Market Transparency via the Internet — A New Challenge for Consumer Policy

    • Ursula Hansen, Behrang Rezabakhsh, Daniel Bornemann
    Pages 233-249
  8. The Role of Consumers in Environmental Successes

    • Eivind Stø, Harald Throne-Hoist, Gunnar Vittersø
    Pages 325-355
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 357-367

About this book

The role of the consumer has changed from seeking the most satisfaction from goods and services to reconciling consumption with active citizenship, which links consumption to modern social issues such as environmental protection, sound business ethics, and fair working conditions. Understanding consumers -- the way they buy products, the way they relate to questions of environmental importance, and the way they participate in public policy formulation processes –is of vital importance to modern society. In this book, eminent researchers examine contemporary issues related to the field of consumers, policy, and the environment.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Consumers, Policy and the Environment

  • Book Subtitle: A Tribute to Folke Ölander

  • Editors: Klaus G. Grunert, John Thøgersen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b106518

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-25003-8Published: 29 March 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-9807-0Published: 21 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-25004-5Published: 05 December 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 367

  • Topics: Economic Policy, Law and Economics, Marketing

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