THE 90s: A TIME OF REVIVAL IN CONSUMER EDUCATION?

I am an economist by profession. It has been said that an economist is like a dermatologist -the patient never dies, but never recovers. My area of special interest is consumer economics ... or consumer education ... or consumer science ... or consumerism ... The fact that there is not one term that is the accepted name for this discipline points to an important problem. Consumer education has not become a discipline in and of itself as other...