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BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

Watchdogs and NEW
Whistleblowers How to Choose

A Reference Guide to Your Major
Consumer Activism
MARY E. GHILANI
STEPHEN BROBECK AND
ROBERT N. MAYER, EDITORS Guide students through the
career decision-making process
“ The new volume provides as it pertains to college choices
an excellent overview of
the consumer movement. with this manual that helps
students identify interest, skills,
GREENWOOD Highly recommended. All GREENWOOD and values; conduct career
July 2015, 533pp, 7x10 academic levels; general July 2017, 236pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
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This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source FEATURES
of information about ways in which consumer activism has • Features personal career stories of several well-known
reshaped the economic and political well-being of citizens in individuals
the United States and around the world.
MARY E. GHILANI, MS, NCC, is the director of career services at
Luzerne County Community College, Nanticoke, PA.
STEPHEN BROBECK, PhD, has been executive director of the
Consumer Federation of America since 1980.
ROBERT N. MAYER, PhD, is professor and department chair American
in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the
University of Utah. Economic History
A Dictionary

Real-World and Chronology
Decision Making JAMES S. OLSON AND
ABRAHAM O. MENDOZA
An Encyclopedia of
This useful resource is a
Behavioral Economics “ solid addition to all library
”
MORRIS ALTMAN, EDITOR collections.
“ excellent, authoritative GREENWOOD —Choice, March 1, 2016
This encyclopedia is an
April 2015, 695pp, 7x10
guide to an exciting Print: 978-1-61069-697-5 “ The short, clear articles
new approach to $89.00, £69.00, €81.00 make this an attractive
eBook: 978-1-61069-698-2
GREENWOOD economic behavior addition to most libraries
June 2015, 499pp, 7x10 and modeling. Highly with a focus on social
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$100.00, £77.00, €91.00 ”
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Covering figures, events, policies, and organizations, this
The first and only encyclopedia to focus on the economic and comprehensive reference tool enhances readers’ appreciation of
financial behaviors of consumers, investors, and organizations, the role economics has played in U.S. history since 1776.
including an exploration of how people make good—and bad—
economic decisions.
JAMES S. OLSON is Distinguished Professor of History at Sam
Houston State University, Huntsville, TX.
MORRIS ALTMAN, PhD, is professor of behavioral and ABRAHAM O. MENDOZA is a scholar with expertise in modern
institutional economics at Victoria University of Wellington, European history, modern German history, U.S. history, Holocaust
New Zealand, and professor of economics at the University of and comparative genocide studies, world history, and war studies.
Saskatchewan, Canada.

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