Creating Consumers

Creating Consumers

Author: Carolyn M. Goldstein

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2012-05-28

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0807872385

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Home economics emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers. At the same moment, American families began to consume many more goods and services than they produced. To guide women in this transition, professional home economists had two major goals: to teach women to assume their new roles as modern consumers and to communicate homemakers' needs to manufacturers and political leaders. Carolyn M. Goldstein charts the development of the profession from its origins as an educational movement to its identity as a source of consumer expertise in the interwar period to its virtual disappearance by the 1970s. Working for both business and government, home economists walked a fine line between educating and representing consumers while they shaped cultural expectations about consumer goods as well as the goods themselves. Goldstein looks beyond 1970s feminist scholarship that dismissed home economics for its emphasis on domesticity to reveal the movement's complexities, including the extent of its public impact and debates about home economists' relationship to the commercial marketplace.


Consumer Economics

Consumer Economics

Author: Elizabeth B. Goldsmith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-10

Total Pages: 579

ISBN-13: 1317539702

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From identity theft to product recalls, from what we once thought of as unshakeable institutions to increasing concerns about sustainability, consumer issues are an integral part of modern life. This fully updated third edition of Consumer Economics offers students an accessible and thorough guide to the concerns surrounding the modern consumer and brings to light the repercussions of making uninformed decisions in today’s economy. This definitive textbook introduces students to these potential issues and covers other key topics including consumer behavior, personal finance, legal rights and responsibilities, as well as marketing and advertising. Combining theory and practice, students are introduced to both the fundamentals of consumer economics and how to become better-informed consumers themselves. Highlights in this new edition include: New Critical Thinking Projects feature to encourage students to develop their critical thinking skills through analysing consumer issues. Expanded coverage of social media and the impact of social influence on consumers. Revised Consumer Alerts: practical advice and guidance for students to make smart consumer decisions. A new Companion Website with a range of presentation materials and exercises related to each chapter. Fully updated throughout, this textbook is suitable for students studying consumer sciences – what works, what doesn’t, and how consumers are changing.


Focus

Focus

Author: Mark C. Schug

Publisher: Council for Economic Educat

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 9781561836246

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Economics and U.S. History are intimately interconnected. On a fundamental level, understanding the past helps your students understand our economic system and the keys to economic growth.


The Experience Economy

The Experience Economy

Author: B. Joseph Pine

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780875848198

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This text seeks to raise the curtain on competitive pricing strategies and asserts that businesses often miss their best opportunity for providing consumers with what they want - an experience. It presents a strategy for companies to script and stage the experiences provided by their products.


The Great Economic Mysteries Book

The Great Economic Mysteries Book

Author: Mark C. Schug

Publisher: Council for Economic Educat

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781561831258

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This publication introduces students in grades 48 to an economic way of thinking through exploring the mysteries of everyday life. Students solve each mystery by responding to hints provided by simple true/false questions and by reference to a logical system of reasoning that applies basic economic principles.


Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics

Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics

Author: National Council on Economic Education

Publisher: Council for Economic Educat

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781561834334

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This essential guide for curriculum developers, administrators, teachers, and education and economics professors, the standards were developed to provide a framework and benchmarks for the teaching of economics to our nation's children.


Capstone

Capstone

Author: Jane S. Lopus

Publisher: Council for Economic Educat

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9781561835164

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This publication contains Capstone's student activities.


Financial Literacy Education

Financial Literacy Education

Author: Chris Arthur

Publisher: Brill / Sense

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9789460919176

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Consumer financial literacy education often appears as a helpful, commonsense solution to neoliberalism and the individualization of responsibility for economic risk. However, in Financial Literacy Education: Neoliberalism, the Consumer and the Citizenthis particular literacy is argued to be both ineffective and unjust. Socially created poverty, unemployment and economic insecurity require more than individual consumer solutions; they require collective responses by engaged, critical citizens. Utilizing concepts from Marx, Foucault, Bourdieu and Baudrillard this book challenges those who claim that 'there is no alternative' to neoliberal insecurity and reduce education to a consumerist training of entrepreneurial consumer-citizens who can continually invest in themselves and the market. Through an analysis of consumer financial literacy education's present and historical supports, as well as its likely effects, this book argues that the choice before us is not financial illiteracy or financial literacy. Rather, the choice is between subjugation to the requirements of perpetual competition or overcoming alienation, insecurity and exploitation, aims the critical financial literacy education outlined at the end of this book supports. This book will appeal to those interested in understanding the conditions of our freedom in an increasingly financialized world--critical educators, philosophers and sociologists of education and financial literacy researchers.


Economic Education for Consumers

Economic Education for Consumers

Author: Roger LeRoy Miller

Publisher:

Published: 2009-02-20

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 9781439046821

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ECONOMIC EDUCATION FOR CONSUMERS, 4th Edition, INTERNATIONAL EDITION, brings economic, consumer, and personal finance topics to life. Exciting changes to this edition include a bright, new design and updated information on important changes in technology, banking, and taxes. Organized into several class-length lessons, each chapter contains several features to capture and maintain student interest, such as Consumer Alert, Vote Your Wallet, Inside the Numbers, Math of Money, What in the World?, and NetBookmark.


A Framework for Teaching Basic Economic Concepts

A Framework for Teaching Basic Economic Concepts

Author: National Council on Economic Education

Publisher: Council for Economic Educat

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781561834877

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This companion to the National Content Standards provides definitions and explanations of key economic concepts as well as scope and sequence guidelines for teaching economics concepts within the K12 curriculum.