LAWS 3205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Junk Food, Sumptuary Law, Douglas Kellner
30 Jan 2018
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Every where we look we are being regulated as consumers ! Consumer law and regulation revolves around us ! Regulation is acting as a means to protect value as consumers ! Kellner reading - looking at the economic relationship and values / problematic issues in terms of access and equality ! Moving beyond economic value we have the socio legal and cultural value of consumer ! How do we regulate these things - hunt article! Looking at post modern consumer , evolved form a simple purchaser to someone that is an autonomous agent ! Look at themes in consumer law ! Douglas kellner- critical theory commodities and consumer society ! Looking at economic relationship within goods and services ! Look at power relationships between consumer and producer ! Too much regulation or not enough ! How that would rebalance or shift that balance of power !
