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Books reviewed in this article Ellis, John, A Financial Guide for the Self-Employed. Fuller, John G., 200,000,000 Guinea Pigs. Gordon, Leland J., and Lee, Stewart M., Economics for Consumers. Hendrickson, Robert, The Cashless Society. Jelley, Herbert M. and Robert O. Herrmann, The American Consumer: Issues and Decisions. Randall, Donald A. and Arthur P. Glickman, The Great American Auto Repair Robbery. Schrag, Philip G., Counsel for the Deceived: Case Studies in Consumer Fraud.     

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ECONOMIC FORECASTING AND POLICY: THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION, by John Llewellyn, Stephen Potter and Lee Samuelson Alan Budd NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP, edited by Herbert Giersch (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr John Burton SUBSIDIES IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE, by Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Joanna Shelton Erb STRATEGIC MATERIALS: A WORLD SURVEY, by Rae Weston INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: PRACTICE AND PRINCIPLES, by Peter F. Drucker     

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JAPAN AND THE ASIAN PACIFIC REGION: A PROFILE OF CHANGE, by Shibusawa Masahide ENTERPRISE AND THE SCOPE OF THE FIRM THE GLOBAL TEXTILE INDUSTRY, by Brian Toyne, Jeffrey S. Arpan, David A. Ricks, Terence A. Shrimp and Andy Barnett POWER AND PROTECTIONISM: STRATEGIES OF THE NEWLY INDUSTRIALIZING COUNTRIES, by David B. Yoffie THE GLOBAL FACTORY: FOREIGN ASSEMBLY IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE, by Joseph Grunwald and Kenneth Flamm     

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Book reviewed in this article Moschis, George, Consumer Socialization: A Life-Cycle Perspective Sapolsky, Harvey (editor). Consuming Fears: The Politics of Product Risks Lee, Stewart and Mel Zelenak, Personal Finance for Consumers Penz, G. Peter, Consumer Sovereignty and Human Interests     

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Book reviewed in this article: Button, Kenneth (ed.), Airline Deregulation: International Experiences Jhally, Sut, The Codes of Advertising: Fetishism and the Political Economy of Meaning in the Consumer Society Ross, Robert J. S. and Kent C. Trachte, Global Capitalism: The New Leviathan Merriam, Sharan B. and Rosemary S. Caffarella, Learning in Adulthood Murphy, Patrick E. and William L. Wilkie (eds.), Marketing and Advertising Regulation: The Federal Trade Commission in the 1990s, Notre Dame Whelan, Christopher J. (ed.), Small Claims Courts: A Comparative Study     

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Books reviewed in this article: Evans, Joel R., Editor, Consumerism in the United States: An InterIndustry Analysis. Henion, Karl E. II, and Thomas C. Kinnear, The Conserver Society. Katzmann, Robert A., Regulatory Bureaucracy: The Federal Trade Commission and Antitrust Policy. Kwitny, Jonathan, Vicious Circles, The Mafia in the Marketplace. Marion, B. W., W. F. Mueller, R. W. Cotterill, F. E. Geithman, and J. R. Schmelzer, The Food Retailing Industry: Market Structure, Profits, and Prices. Morgan, James N. and Greg J. Duncan, The Economics of Personal Choice.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Backman, Jules. Advertising and Competition. Bell, Carolyn Shaw. Consumer Choice in the American Economy. Garrett, Pauline G., and Edward J. Metzen. You Are a Consumer of Clothing. Gordon, Leland J., and Stewart M. Lee. Economics for Consumers (Fifth Edition). Nicosia, Francesco M., Consumer Decision Process: Marketing and Advertising Implications.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Bogart, Leo, Preserving the Press: How Daily Newspapers Mobilized to Keep Their Readers Brobeck, Stephen J., The Modern Consumer Movement: References and Resouces Bryant, W. Keith, The Economic Organization of the Household Gray, Bradford H., The Profit Motive and Patient Care: The Changing Accountability of Doctors and Hospitals Leichter, Howard M., Free to Be Foolish: Politics and Health Promotion in the United States and Great Britain Ritzer, George, editor, Frontiers of Social Theory: The New Synthesis Wuthnow, Robert, Acts of Compassion: Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves Young, Brian M., Television Advertising and Children     

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CONSUMER PSYCHOLOGY OF TOURISM, HOSPITALITY, AND LEISURE. Geoffrey I. Crouch (Editor), Volume 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: CABI Publishing, 2004. Reviewed by Kevin R. Fish.

SELLING BRITISH COLUMBIA: TOURISM AND CONSUMER CULTURE. Michael Dawson. 1890-1970, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. Reviewed by Kevin R. Fish.     

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PRIVATIZATION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE. Estrin, Saul (editor). London: Longman, 1994, 331 + xvipp. Reviewed by Lavinia Stan.

KREMLIN CAPITALISM; PRIVATIZING THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY. Blasi, Joseph R., Maya Kroumova, and Douglas Kruse. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1997. Reviewed by Val Samonis.

WORLD INVESTMENT REPORT 1997: TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS, MARKET STRUCTURE AND COMPETITION POLICY. Geneva: United Nations, 1997. Reviewed by Ambreen Mahmud.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Retail Meat Cuts in Great Britain . Technical Editors: C. D. Figg, J. W. Strother and R. J. Tyler JP. The Law of Consumer Protection and Fair Trading.     

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Book reviewed in this article: NONTARIFF AGRICULTURAL TRADE BARRIERS, by Jimmye S. Hillman RAW MATERIALS AND PACIFIC ECONOMIC INTEGRATION, edited by Sir John Crawford and Saburo Okita AUSTRALIA-JAPAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT, edited by Peter Drysdale and Kiyoshi Kojima INTERNATIONAL TRADE POLICY, by F. V. Meyer WELFARE AND EFFICIENCY: THEIR INTERACTIONS IN WESTERN EUROPE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS, by Theodore Geiger assisted by Frances M. Geiger MONEY AND POWER: BANKS AND THE WORLD MONETARY SYSTEM, by Jonathan David Aronson FOREIGN TRADE REGIMES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: LIBERALISATION AND CONSEQUENCES, by Anne O. Krueger BETWEEN POWER AND PLENTY, FOREIGN ECONOMIC POLICIES OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL STATES, edited by Peter J. Katzenstein THE CODETERMINATION MOVEMENT IN THE WEST, edited by Svetozar Pejovich TECHNOLOGY AND THE MULTINATIONALS: CORPORATE STRATEGIES IN A CHANGING WORLD ECONOMY, by Jack Baranson     

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Bloom, Gordon F., Productivity in the Food Industry: Problems and Potential. Fitzsimmons, Cleo and Flora Williams, The Family Economy. Galbraith, John Kenneth, Economics and the Public Purpose. Howard, John A. and James Hulbert, Advertising and the Public Interest. Mumey, Glen A., Personal Economic Planning. Murray, Barbara B., Consumerism: The Eternal Triangle. Strumpel Burkhard, James N. Morgan and Ernest Zahn (editors), HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF GEORGE KATONA WITH CONCLUDING COMMENTS BY GEORGE KATONA     

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AN INTERNATIONAL STANDARLI FOR MONETARY STABILJZATION, by Ronald I. McKinnon ECONOMICS OF WORLD POWER: AN ASSESSMENT OF AMERICAN DIPLOMACY SINCE 1789, edited by William H. Becker and Samuel F. Wells Jr THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MALAYSIA, edited by E.K. Fisk and H. Osman-Rani GOVERNMENTS, MARKETS AND GROWTH: FINANCIAL SYSTEMS AND THE POLITICS OF INDUSTRIAL CHANGE, by John Zysman NUCLEAR POWER IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD, by Daniel Poneman THE FUTURE COURSE OF US-JAPANESE ECONOMIC RELATIONS, edited by Edward R. Fried, Philip H. Trezise and Shigenobu Yoshida     

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Books reviewed in this article: Friendly, Fred W. Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control. Galbraith, John Kenneth. The New Industrial State. Katona, George, Eva Mueller, Jay Schmedeskamp and John A. Sonquist. 1966 Survey of Consumer Finances.. Margolius, Sidney.The Znnocent Consumer us. The Exploiters. Metcalf, Lee and Vic Reinemer. Overcharge. Myers, James H. and William H. Reynolds. Consumer Behauior and Marketing Management. Boston. Tucker, W. T. Foundations for a Theory of Consumer Behavior. Brim, Orville, David Glass, David Lavin and Norman Goodman. Personality and Decision Processes. Bross, Irwin. Design for Decision. Diesing, Paul. Reason in Society. Gore, William and J. W. Dyson, eds. The Making of Decisions: A Reader in Administrative Behavior. Jeffrey, R. C. The Logic of Decision. Maslow, Abraham. Eupsychian Management. Simon, Herbert. The New Science of Management Decision. Elbing, Alvar. “A Model for Viewing Decision Making in Interactive Situations from an Historical Perspective.”Business Review. Fishburn, Peter. “Analysis of Decisions with Incomplete Knowledge of Probabilities.”Operations Research. Hoffman, L. Richard, Ronald Burke and Norman Maier. “Participation, Influence and Satisfaction Among Members of Problem Solving Groups.”Psychological Reports. Long, Barbara. “Predecisional Search in Concept Formation: the Effects of Problem Complexity.”Psychological Record. Rose, Arnold. “Conditions for Irrational Choices.”Social Research.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Alexander, George J. Honesty and Competition; False Advertising Law and Policy Under F.T.C. Administration. Burk, Marguerite. Consumption Economics: A Multidisciplinary Approach.. Buzzel, Robert D. and Robert E. M. Nourse. Product Innovation in Food Processing, 1954–1964. Casey, William J. The Truth About Probate and Family Financial Planning. Darrah, L. B.Food Marketing. Mowbray, A. Q. The Thumb On The Scale or The Supermarket Shell Game. Young, James Harvey. The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth Century America.     

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Book reviews in this article Anspach, Karlyne. The Why of Fashion. Bauer, Raymond A. and Stephen A. Greyser. Advertising in America: The Consumer View. Baker, Samm S. The Permissible Lie, The Inside Truth About Advertising. Britton, Virginia. Personal Finance. Gilboy, Elizabeth W. A Primer on the Economics of Consumption. Fox, Harold J. The Economics of Trading Stamps. Moore, Geoffrey H. and Philip A. Klein. The Quality of Consumer Instalment Credit. Massy, William F., Ronald E. Frank and Thomas M. Lodahl. Purchasing Behavior and Personal Attributes.     

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Book reviews in this article Bishop, James, Jr. and Henry W. Hubbard. Let the Seller Beware: The Consumer Revolution. Buzzi, Giancarlo. Advertising: Its Cultural and Political Effects. (Translated by B. David Garmize.) Dickinson, F. Reed (editor). Product Safety in Household Goods. Keeton, Robert E., Jeffrey O'Connell and John H. McCord. Crisis in Car Insurance. Padberg, Daniel I. Economics of Food Retailing. Schwartz, Jerome L. Medical Plans and Health Care: Consumer Participation in Policy Making With a Special Section on Medicare. Sullivan, George. The Boom in Going Bust: The Growing Scandal in Consumer Bankruptcy.