SOME SIGNIFICANT MOMENTS AND SPECIFIC NATIONAL APPROACHES TO CONSUMER PROTECTION AROUND THE WORLD

Mircea Dan RADU

Abstract


The paper aims to identify from the literature and reliable sources on the web and to present in a synthetic manner some aspects and time moments of consumer protection concerns, respectively their specific approaches in different countries of the world. As background, the definitions and content for few basic concepts of customer protection and their variations are summarised. After the brief presentation of some very early historical milestones, the paper focuses on the modern industrial era reviewing few landmarks concerning the recent history and present status of the national or transnational institutional approaches.

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