 In this issue
No. 147 May 1985
LettersUpdate
 Consumer power:
For private greed or public need?
Dexter Tiranti looks beyond the issues of the shopping basket
Shopping around
The facts on consumerism
Our affluent society
The more we have, the more we seem to need. Professor J.K. Galbraith explains.
Being sold short
Often at the receiving end of business sharp practice, consumers in the South are
beginning to fight back. Foo Gaik Sim reports.
Action at Tanjong Tokong
A profile of the Consumers’ Association of Penang
Tricks they play
Just how is it we so easily relieved of our money when we go shopping? The New
Internationalist reveals all.
Market forces: The drug industry
Drug companies distort demand and supply through fierce promotion and lobbying. Troth
Wells reports.
Market forces: The tobacco industry
Simon Chapman probes the tobacco industry’s elaborate smokescreen.
Market forces: The food industry
The great British diet is unhealthy. But attempts to change it have met strong opposition.
A consumer’s guide to alternatives
Consumer power: North American style
Ralph Nader changes the face of consumerism in the 1960s. He’s still at it. Peter
MacFarland talks to the veteran campaigner
Under the microscope
From AGHAST to Greenpeace, your help is needed.
A round-up of national and international
action groups.
PLUS Worth reading on... CONSUMER POWER
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