The Frontier of Research in the Consumer Interest. Proceedings of the International Conference on Research in the Consumer Interest (Racine, Wisconsin, August 16-19, 1986).

The following papers are included: "JFK's Four Consumer Rights" (Lampman); "Product Safety" (Gerner); "Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Product Safety Regulation" (Crandall); "CPCS's Voluntary Standards" (Ault); "Consumer Safety and Issue Emergence Process" (Mayer); "Reflections on Research in the Consumer Interest" (Nelson); "Concept of Quality" (Curry); "Price Quality Relationship" (Geistfeld); "Environmental Considerations and Assessment of Quality" (Huttenrauch); "Weights, Cardinality, and Scaling in Assessing Quality" (Maynes); "Information Processing from Consumer's Perspective" (Russo); "Overlooked Mechanisms for Conveying Information to Consumers" (Mazis); "Determinants of Information Use" (Olshavsky); "Economics of Information in Consumer Markets" (Ippolito); "Economics of Information" (Ratchford); "Consumer Choice Is More than Search" (Morgan); "An Electronic Future?" (Mitchell); "New Technologies in Consumer Information" (Talarzyck); "Marketing Context of Consumer Choice" (Wilkie); "International Trade" (Dardis); "International Trade and Trade-Offs for Third World Consumers" (Reich); "International Trade" (Allain); "International Trade and Trade-Offs for Third World Consumers" (Kinsey); "Increasing Competition through Deregulation" (Kushman); "Case for Minimizing Regulation" (Clarkson); "Financial Services" (Durkin); "Privatization, Competition and Airline Deregulation" (Mitchell); "Issues in Regulation and Deregulation" (Nelson); "Organization of Consumer Movement" (Herrmann et al.); "Why Consumer Education in Japan?" (Imai); "Consumer Organization and Representation in Developed World" (Sand); "Consumer Organization and Representation in Developing Countries" (Allain); "Consumer Policy and European Economic Community" (Orsini); "Consumer Problems" (Thorelli); "Salient Issues in Current European Consumer Policy Research" (Orlander); "Time for a Wingspread" (Kerton); "Self-Fulfillment, Consumer Policy and Consumer Research" (Scherhorn); "Corporate Consumer Affairs Departments" (Fornell); "Consumer Affairs" (Fernstrom); "Consumer Affairs" (Vawter); "Consumer Affairs Professionals and the Consumer Interest" (McKaig); "Advertising" (Eastwood); "Market Research in the Consumer Interest" (Imowitz); "Marketing Research as a Dialogue" (Levy); "How Can Marketing Research Contribute to Consumer Interest?" (Murphy); "Survey Research on Behalf of Consumer" (Warren); "Consumer Complaints and Redress" (Andreasen); "Consumer Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction and Consumer Interest" (Hunt); "Disappearance of Consumer from Modern Products Liability Law" (Priest); "Role of Secondary Schools" (Green); "Role of Federal Government" (Mohr); "Role of Cooperative Extension" (Turner); and "Content of College-University Course in Consumer Education" (Robinson). (MN)