Consumer Interests and Economic Wellbeing

Abstract

This chapter discusses consumer economic wellbeing from a political perspective: how consumers pursue their rights in the marketplace through a public decision-making process to preserve and improve their economic wellbeing. In this chapter, we discuss consumer interests, consumer issues, consumer rights, and consumer representation. Because consumer right to privacy is a relatively new right, we summarize research on this right in a separate section. In addition, we also discuss the concept of consumer sovereignty and strategies for individual consumers to protect themselves in the marketplace.