Table Of Content

TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 19 ARTICLES ABERG, HELENA, SVEN DAHLMAN, HELENA SHANAHAN and ROGER SALJé / Towards Sound Environmental Behaviour: Exploring Household Participation in Waste Management 45-67 BECH-LARSEN, TINO / Danish Consumers’ Attitudes to the Functional and Environmental Characteristics of Food Packaging 339-363 FRIEDMAN, MONROE / A Positive Approach to Organized Consumer Action: The “Buycott” as an Alternative to the Boycott 439-451 GER, GULIZ and RUSSEL W. BELK/ I ’d Like to Buy the World a Coke: Consumptionscapes of the “Less Affluent World” 271-304 GLINERT, LEWIS H. / Product Safety Information and Language Policy in an Advanced Third World Economy: The Case of Israel 411-438 HALBHUBER, HARALD and EWOUD HONDIUS / Guarantee Funds for the Travel Industry: Protection of the Consumer Against the Insolvency of His Organizer/Retailer 305-337 HILL, DONNA J., MARYON F. KING, and ELI COHEN / The Perceived Utility of Information Presented via Electronic Decision Aids: A Consumer Perspective 137-166 REICH, NORBERT / Consumer Protection in Countries of Emerg- ing Markets: The Example of Russia 1-43 RHEE, KEE-CHOON and JINKOOK LEE / Review of a Consumer Activism in Korea, 1910—1995: A Political-Economic Approach 365-392 RIETHMULLER, PAUL / Reform of the Japanese Food Distribu- tion System: Implications for Consumers WYCKHAM, ROBERT G. / Dealing with Misleading Advertising in the Face of Declining Government Resources 167-192 Journal of Consumer Policy 19: 523-525, 1996. 524 TABLE OF CONTENTS NOTES AND REPORTS ALLIX, JEAN / Consumers and the Single Currency 83-100 EISER, J. RICHARD, STEVEN D. REICHER and TESSA J. PODPADEC / Attitudes to Privatization of UK Public Utilities: Anticipating Industrial Practice and Environmental Effects 193-208 DOCUMENTATION Commission of the European Communities / Green Paper: Commer- cial Communications in the Internal Market 455-504 Commission of the European Communities/ Priorities for Consumer Policy 1996-1998 101-111 Editor’s Note 209 Editors’ Note / The Commission’s Green Paper on Commercial Communications 453 European Consumer Law Group / Consumer Policy Within the Intergovernmental Conference 245-249 The Economic and Social Committee of the European Communities / Opinion on the Single Market and Consumer Protection: Opportunities and Obstacles (Own-Initiative Opinion) COMMUNICATIONS SCHUSTER, ALEX / Comment on Commercial Communications in the Internal Market (Green Paper from the Commission of the European Communities) 505-510 BOOK REVIEWS Agence Européenne d’ Information sur la Consommation: Carnet de Route du Consommateur/The Consumer’s Travel Companion (Stephen Weatherill) 251-253 GABRIEL, YIANNIS & TIM LANG: The Unmanageable Con- sumer: Contemporary Consumption and its Fragmentations (A. Fuat Firat) 393-396 HOLBROOK, MORRIS B. & ELIZABETH C. HIRSCHMAN: The Semiotics of Consumption. Interpreting Symbolic Consumer Behaviour in Popular Culture and Work of Arts (Per Ostergaard) 396-399 TABLE OF CONTENTS 525 KRUGMAN, PAUL: Peddling Prosperity. Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations (Peter Munk Christiansen) 254-257 LEBERGOTT, STANLEY: Pursuing Happiness: American Consumers in the Twentieth Century (Monroe Friedman) 115-118 MARSH, P.D.V.: Comparative Contract Law: England, France, Germany (Michael G. Bridge) 113-115 REISCH, LUCIA: Status und Position (Konrad Ott) 511-516 SLOAN, FRANK A., PENNY B. GITHENS, ELLEN WRIGHT CLAYTON, GERALD B. HICKSON, DOUGLAS A. GEN- TILE, and DAVID F. PARTLETT: Suing for Medical Malprac- tice (Thérése Murphy) 118-121 SONUGA-BARKE, EDMUND J.S. & PAUL WEBLEY: Children’s Saving: A Study in the Development of Economic Behaviour (Dominique Lassarre) 516-519 BOOK NOTES 257-270, 399-409, 519-521