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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808079803321

Titolo

Ethical consumption : social value and economic practice / / edited by James G. Carrier and Peter G. Luetchford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012

ISBN

1-280-49675-4

9786613591982

0-85745-343-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Classificazione

CC 7262

Altri autori (Persone)

CarrierJames G

LuetchfordPeter

Disciplina

174/.4

174.4

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Moral and ethical aspects

Social values

Social ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. Producers and consumers -- section 2. Ethical consumption contexts.

Sommario/riassunto

Increasingly, consumers in North America and Europe see their purchasing as a way to express to the commercial world their concerns about trade justice, the environment and similar issues. This ethical consumption has attracted growing attention in the press and among academics. Extending beyond the growing body of scholarly work on the topic in several ways, this volume focuses primarily on consumers rather than producers and commodity chains. It presents cases from a variety of European countries and is concerned with a wide range of objects and types of ethical consumption, not simply the u