Consumer Capitalism: Politics, Product Markets, and Firm Strategy in France and Germany

by 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 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801443822
• ISBN13: 9780801443824
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher