Consumer Protection

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This paper relates, that the history of big business enterprises in the United States is the sacrificing of consumer safety for profit. The author points out the example of the Corvair automobile of the 1960s. The paper reviews historic events that shaped the consumer protection movement of the American twentieth century.

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"There are a myriad of reasons why we need consumer protection in our modern world. Chiefly, we need consumer protection because those who profit from mass-consumption - and from cost-cutting measures at all levels of production - cannot be counted upon to put the interests of the consumer first unless compelled to do so. This paper explores why it is that consumer protection is so vitally important for American consumers by high-lighting instances when business avarice superseded concerns about the well-being of ordinary citizens."

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