TY - BOOK TI - Economics for consumers T2 - SERIES SN - 0-534-01083-0 AV - LCC PY - 1982/// CY - USA PB - Wadsworth N1 - PART1: IS THE CONSUMER REALLY KING? 1 Chapter 1 The Consumer in a Free Society 3 The Consumer in a Free Economy 3 Who Is to Blame for America's Economic Problems? 5 Consumerism- A People's Movement Are Consumer Issues Changing in the 1980s? We Are All Consumers 10 How the Economy Operates 14 Satisfying Consumer Wants 16 Consumer Sovereignty? 17 The Dual Role of Consumers 26 Consumer Rights 27 Consumer Responsibilities Consumer Democracy 29 6 28 Chapter 2 The Complexity Consumer Demand of 33; Ingeniería en Administración N2 - The election of a conservative, President Reagan. .n November 1980 and substantial cutbacks i federal and state consumer programs throughout the early 1980s have caused some to feel that consumerism is no longer the potent force that it was in the 1960s and 1970s. However, because consumerism is an economic force it will always be an integral part of our economy. As long as there is a healthy adversary relationship between the buyer and seller in our economy, there will be a need for consumerism, consumer economics. and consumer education, whose major purpose is to place the consumer on a more equal basis with the producer ER -