Journal of Consumer Policy
Editors
Folke Olander, School of Business Administration & Economics, Aarhus, Denmark; Norbert Reich, University of
Bremen, FRG; Gerhard Scherhorn, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, FRG
Journal of Consumer Policy is an international scholarly
journal which encompasses a diverse range of issues to do
with consumer affairs. It analyses the consumer's dependence
upon existing social and economic structures, it seeks to
define the consumer's interest, and to discuss the ways in
which this interest can be fostered - or restrained - through
actions and policies of consumers, industry, organisations,
government, educational institutions, and mass media.
The journal publishes empirical research on consumer and
producer conduct, such research being chiefly committed to
the consumer's perspective. However, the producer's perspective is far from neglected in the Journal of Consumer
Policy, with its pages being open to contributions on controversial issues that explain the producer's viewpoint. One of the
aims of the journal is to increase communication between the
parties in the marketplace.
Here, too, the scope of the journal is consciously broad: not
only consumer problems with private producers are scrutinised but also problems to do with the handling of goods and
services in the public sector. Public policy in the consumer
sphere and its social and economic consequences are
regularly examined. Also studies on the interaction between
consumption and associated forms of behaviour such as work
and leisure are encouraged.
Journal of Consumer Policy includes a separate section
devoted to consumer law. This section reports regularly on
developments in legal policy with a bearing on consumer
issues.
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