The Potential and Limits of Consumer Empowerment by Information

By Geraint Howells. 2005

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• Empowerment of Whom and for What? Financial Literacy Education and the New Regulation of Consumer Financial Services (2007, unknown): “…literatures dispute claims of the liberal state’s indifference towards consumer preferences (e.g., Benería 1999; Hodgson 1999; Polanyi 2001) assumptions that the state does not interfere with individuals’ choices continue to influence policy on the regulation of consumer markets (Howells 2005).”
• Transformative Consumer Research: For Personal and Collective Well-Being (2012, background): “Motives for consumer education have typically stemmed from a desire to increase the efficiency of the market and remove the need for additional regulation (Fast, Vosburgh, & Frisbee, 1989; Howells, 2005; Langrehr & Mason, 1977).”