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Consumer Safety Regulation: Putting a Price on Life and Limb » Read Now
by Peter Asch. 182 pgs.

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Advocates of consumer safety regulation, an active and controversial area of public policy in the United States, contend that markets do not adequately protect the interests of vulnerable consumers; market traditionalists respond that public agencies increasingly make risk/safety decisions that...
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Advocates of consumer safety regulation, an active and controversial area of public policy in the United States, contend that markets do not adequately protect the interests of vulnerable consumers; market traditionalists respond that public agencies increasingly make risk/safety decisions that individual citizens ought to be making for themselves. This book, written by an economist, critically assesses the rationales for, and the effects of, our major consumer safety programs. Addressed to a general audience, and incorporating relevant literature on cognitive psychology as well as economics, the author argues that although legitimate reasons for public protection of consumers exist in some markets, the particular programs we adopt often produce results that fall far short of what their advocates desire, and at least occasionally yield perverse outcomes.
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Consumer and Trading Law: Text, Cases, and Materials » Read Now
by Brian W. Harvey, C. J. Miller, Deborah L. Parry. 754 pgs.

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This book presents material drawn from a broad range of UK sources. It includes comparative material from jurisdictions in the US, Commonwealth, and Europe.
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Toward a New Model of Consumer Protection: The Problem of Inflated Transaction Costs, in William and Mary Law Review » Read Now
by Jeff Sovern. 75 pgs.

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Seeking a Single Policy for Contractual Fairness to Consumers: A Comparison of U.S. and E.U. Efforts, in Journal of Consumer Affairs » Read Now
by Jennifer Hamilton, Ross D. Petty. 21 pgs.

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The High Cost of Mandatory Consumer Arbitration, in Law and Contemporary Problems » Read Now
by Mark E. Budnitz. 34 pgs.

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Online Privacy and Consumer Protection: An Analysis of Portal Privacy Statements, in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media » Read Now
by Jan Fernback, Zizi Papacharissi. 23 pgs.

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Online Auction Fraud: Are the Auction Houses Doing All They Should or Could to Stop Online Fraud?, in Federal Communications Law Journal » Read Now
by James M. Snyder. 6 pgs.

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Consumer Product Safety Regulation in the United States and the United Kingdom: The Case of Bicycles, in Rand Journal of Economics » Read Now
by Wesley A. Magat, Michael J. Moore. 17 pgs.

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Critical Issues in Business Conduct: Legal, Ethical, and Social Challenges for the 1990s (Chap. 6 "Workplace Safety, Consumer Protection, and Product Quality") » Read Now
by Walter W. Manley II, William A. Shrode. 314 pgs.

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Critical Issues in Business Conduct addresses the legal, ethical, and social issues that will dominate business in the 1990s. From the impact of AIDS and problems of drug and alcohol in the workplace to financial accounting, employee rights, and sexual harassment, the book explores topical issues...
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Critical Issues in Business Conduct addresses the legal, ethical, and social issues that will dominate business in the 1990s. From the impact of AIDS and problems of drug and alcohol in the workplace to financial accounting, employee rights, and sexual harassment, the book explores topical issues arising from the relationship between business organizations and their external constituencies as well as those that characterize relationships between firms and their own managers, employees, directors, and shareholders. The aim throughout is to provide practical guidelines for dealing with the most critical business conduct issues facing managers and executives today.
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Coping with Consumer Fraud: The Need for a Paradigm Shift, in Journal of Consumer Affairs » Read Now
by Monroe Friedman. 12 pgs.

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Consumer Protection--Or Overprotection?, in Human Ecology » Read Now
by Metta Winter. 4 pgs.

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Daily Life in the United States, 1960-1990: Decades of Discord (Chap. 14 "Environmental and Consumer Protection") » Read Now
by Myron A. Marty. 380 pgs.

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The volatility of the civil rights movement; the impact of the baby boom generation; the influences of television, advertising, and other media; the emergence of environmental and consumer-protection movements; and the effects the Vietnam War and Watergate had on the American public are just a few...
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The volatility of the civil rights movement; the impact of the baby boom generation; the influences of television, advertising, and other media; the emergence of environmental and consumer-protection movements; and the effects the Vietnam War and Watergate had on the American public are just a few of the issues examined and outlined in this text.
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Pharmaceutical Dispensing in the "Wild West": Advancing Health Care and Protecting Consumers through the Regulation of Online Pharmacies, in William and Mary Law Review » Read Now
by Sean P. Haney. 44 pgs.

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Product Safety and Liability Law in Japan: From Minamata to Mad Cows » Read Now
by Luke Nottage. 311 pgs.

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Luke Nottage is a Senior Lecturer at Sydney University Law Faculty and founding Co-director of the Australian Network for Japanese Law.