Authors:John Benson, Laura Ugolini,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: consumption, history, retailing, society, cultures, perspectives, selling
Number of Pages: 297
Published: 2006-05-31
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0754650464
ISBN-13: 9780754650461

The study of consumption and its relationship to cultural and social values has become a vibrant and important field in recent years. Hitherto however, relatively few detailed and full length works on this topic have been published. In what will become a seminal volume, this book examines retail selling in various historical contexts and locations, as both an activity at once ’mundane’ and almost universal. The book introduces the reader to the existing literature relevant to the subject; and explores the widespread perceptions of moral ambiguity surrounding the practice of selling

Authors:Kate Soper, Frank Trentmann,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: consumption, life, public, citizenship
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-01-15
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 023055346X
ISBN-13: 9780230553460

The book provides a timely forum for current thinking on consumption and citizenship, exploring overlaps, interactions and tensions between them.

Authors:John Brewer, Roy Porter,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: amp, consumption, centuries, culture, goods, world
Number of Pages: 654
Published: 1994-11-04
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0415114780
ISBN-13: 9780415114783

Now available in a paperback edition, Consumption and the World of Goods offers a new interpretation of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, one that shapes a new historical landscape based on the consumption of goods and services. Leading specialists from the United States and Europe focus on problems of methodology and historiography, goods and consumption, production and the meaning of possessions, literacy and numeracy, books, newspapers, objects and images. The result is a rich new direction in early modern cultural and social history.Contributors: Jean-Christophe Agnew, Joyce Appl

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Na
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org
Keywords: food, consumption, fao, nutrition, paper, groups, household, surveys, review, economic
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 1986-12
List price: $18.25
ISBN-10: 9251023751
ISBN-13: 9789251023754

Authors:Alain Chatriot, Marie-emmanuelle Chessel, Matthew Hi
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: retailing, consumption, consumer, history, professionals, associations, expert, society
Number of Pages: 209
Published: 2006-07
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0754655016
ISBN-13: 9780754655015

Recent work has focused on the politics of consumption and its manifestation in a number of situations. This volume extends these debates, providing a tighter focus and contributing to a noticeable gap in the field that numerous scholars (particularly in North America) are beginning to turn towards: that is, organizations of consumers themselves who have chosen to speak for all consumers and similar such bodies of experts which act on behalf of consumers. The volume is fortunate in drawing upon a number of scholars who are about to publish major works on the subject, but who are happy to provi

Author: Committee on Food Consumption PatternsFood and Nu
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: patterns, consumption, food, changing, assessing
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 1981-01-01
List price: $77.25
ISBN-10: 0309031354
ISBN-13: 9780309031356

Author: Oecd
Publisher: Organization for Economic
Keywords: trends, tax, consumption
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 1999-05
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 9264170359
ISBN-13: 9789264170353

How do governments increase revenues without raising income taxes? General consumption taxes, especially those based on value added, are being increasingly used. But there is no evidence of a general shift from income to consumption taxes instead, VAT has tended to replace other indirect taxes. This study charts the rise of VAT since 1965, looks at differences included in the tax base, and considers the problems encountered in administering the tax.