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Consumer economy

2010-03-06T05:06:49Z

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The '''consumer economy''' is that portion of the overall economic system that is dependent on individual or household consumer expenditures. Goods that embody the consumer economy would include [[food]], clothing, housing, [[furniture]], appliances, [[automobile]]s, etc.; while services that comprise the consumer economy would include [[restaurant]]s, private hospital care, personal [[bank]]ing, commercial airlines, etc. Thus, the consumer economy is distinct from (yet related to) the industrial economy which emphasizes trade between corporations (investment banking, industrial machinery, [[chemical]]s, etc.), and the public sector which involves the delivery of governmental services (bridges and roads, sewer, public education, etc.).

When the economy of a nation is described as a '''consumer economy''' (sometimes '''[[consumer society]]'''), this implies that the nation's prosperity is significantly based in sustainable consumer demand for goods and services. Generally, such goods and services are obtained through exchange and not through self-production. Economists have suggested that, in a consumer economy, the concept of "enough, or more than enough" is undermined; the demand for goods and services, and the availability of income to purchase them, is assumed to be constant.<ref>John K. Galbraith, "Foreword" in Neva R. Goodwin, Frank Ackerman and David Kiron (eds), ''The Consumer Society'' (Island Press, WashingtonD.C., 1997, page xxi)</ref> The result is a close relationship between employment and income from employment on the one hand, and production of goods and services on the other.<ref>Ibid.</ref> It has been said that "(a) consumerist society is one in which the possession of an increasing number and variety of goods and services is the highest cultural aspiration and the surest perceived route to personal happiness, social status, and national success."<ref>Jerome Segal, "Alternatives to Mass Consumption" ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 15:4, 1995, pages 27 to 29.</ref>

==History==
The consumer economy began to expand exponentially in the early- to mid-20th century. Around the early 20th century, the growth of consumer rights and activist movements also commenced, with the creation of organizations such as the National Consumers League.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/ccpres05.html Introduction to ''Prosperity and Thrift''], from ''Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929'', Library of Congress.</ref> It has been said that two-thirds of jobs in the [[Directory:United States|United States]] are now tied either directly or indirectly to the consumer economy.<ref>''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670887366?ie=UTF8&tag=mywikibizcom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0670887366 The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and The Next Episode of Capitalism]'', Shoshana Zuboff & James Maxmin, [http://books.google.com/books?id=pn-7AAAAIAAJ&q=%22in+the+US+economy+were+directly+or+indirectly+dependent+upon+consumer+expenditures+making+consumers+responsible%22&dq=%22in+the+US+economy+were+directly+or+indirectly+dependent+upon+consumer+expenditures+making+consumers+responsible%22&lr=&ei=jtQCS6ubM5zGNfqnzNoO pg. 8].</ref> Such a reliance on one aspect of the overall economy has its own set of risks.

Professor Peter Spencer of the Ernst & Young [http://www.ey.com/UK/en/Issues/Business-environment/Financial-markets-and-economy/Economic-Outlook ITEM Club] concluded that the consumer economy in the United Kingdom would not recover from the late-2008 recession until 2011. <ref>Wallop, Henry & Conway, Edmund (2008). [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/3227351/Consumer-economy-will-not-recover-until-2011.html "Consumer economy will not recover until 2011"]. ''The Telegraph'', telegraph.co.uk.</ref> While Ann Kramer has proposed a new economic system as an alternative to a consumer-based economy, due to the effects of the recent recession. Dubbed "Partnerism", the proposed economic framework would implement equal cooperation between all sectors of the economy, elevating the significance of what the author perceives as marginalized sectors. Kramer believes that the 2008 bailout of financial institutions in the United States was not a sustainable model, commenting that "Wall Street has been acting like drunken fools". <ref>Kramer, Ann (2008). [http://www.opednews.com/articles/Time-to-reinvent-the-econo-by-Ann-Kramer-080925-427.html "Beyond the Consumer Economy: Partnerism"]. ''OpEdNews''</ref>

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[[Keyword:=Consumer economy]]
[[Keyword:=Industrial economy]]
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==References==
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Directory:Slow Exposure

2010-03-05T23:51:43Z

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{{Infobox_Company
| company_name = [[Company_Name:=Slow Exposure]]
| company_logo = [[Image:Bridget lingerie.jpg |thumb|A recent Slow Exposure model.]]
| company_slogan = ''Real Women. Real Beauty.''
| genre = [[Erotic blog]]
| foundation = [[Year_Started:=2009|[[2009]]]]
| products = [http://www.slowexposure.com SlowExposure.com]
| contact = [http://info@slowexposure.com e-mail]
}}

'''Slow Exposure''' is an acclaimed<ref>[http://fleshbot.com/5447396/slow-exposure-perfects-the-art-of-the-tease Fleshbot, retrieved March 5, 2010]</ref> New York-based erotic blog featuring women in an informal interview situation gradually disrobing on instructions from an off-screen voice. The models are recruited through responses to advertisements and casting calls. Almost all are amateurs with no previous experience of nude modeling. The aim of the website is to produce erotic material featuring nudity, and the implied exhibitionism and voyeurism, while avoiding the cliches of internet pornography. The content is softcore, and the site places a premium on respecting the persons and individuality of the models. All content is produced for, and is unique to, Slow Exposure.

== Structure and Membership ==

Each interview is divided into five segments. In the first, the model introduces herself. In the second, viewers learn more about her and what she is wearing, and some of her clothing is loosened or unfastened. In the third segment, she undressed to her bra and pants. These three segments are available free to all visitors to the site.

The fourth and fifth segments involve partial and finally complete nudity. These can be viewed by members only (subscription is currently $9.99 per month). The site generally posts a nude model each week. The interviews are unrehearsed.

==References==
<div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:1; column-count:1;">
<references />
</div>

== External links ==
*[http://www.slowexposure.com SlowExposure.com]
*[http://slowexposure.weebly.com/index.html Booking Page]

Directory:Slow Exposure

2010-03-05T23:44:15Z

Loppy:

{{Infobox_Company
| company_name = [[Company_Name:=Slow Exposure]]
| company_logo = [[Image:Bridget lingerie.jpg |thumb|One of our recent models.]]
| company_slogan = ''Real Women. Real Beauty.''
| genre = [[Erotic blog]]
| foundation = [[Year_Started:=2009|[[2009]]]]
| products = [http://www.slowexposure.com SlowExposure.com]
| contact = [http://info@slowexposure.com e-mail]
}}

'''Slow Exposure''' is an acclaimed<ref>[http://fleshbot.com/5447396/slow-exposure-perfects-the-art-of-the-tease Fleshbot, retrieved March 5, 2010]</ref> New York-based erotic blog featuring women in an informal interview situation gradually disrobing on instructions from an off-screen voice. The models are recruited through responses to advertisements and casting calls. Almost all are amateurs with no previous experience of nude modeling. The aim of the website is to produce erotic material featuring nudity, and the implied exhibitionism and voyeurism, while avoiding the cliches of internet pornography. The content is softcore, and the site places a premium on respecting the persons and individuality of the models. All content is produced for, and is unique to, Slow Exposure.

== Structure and Membership ==

Each interview is divided into five segments. In the first, the model introduces herself. In the second, viewers learn more about her and what she is wearing, and some of her clothing is loosened or unfastened. In the third segment, she undressed to her bra and pants. These three segments are available free to all visitors to the site.

The fourth and fifth segments involve partial and finally complete nudity. These can be viewed by members only (subscription is currently $9.99 per month). The site generally posts a nude model each week. The interviews are unrehearsed.

==References==
<div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:1; column-count:1;">
<references />
</div>

== External links ==
*[http://www.slowexposure.com SlowExposure.com]
*[http://slowexposure.weebly.com/index.html Booking Page]

Directory:Slow Exposure

2010-03-05T23:43:49Z

Loppy: Created listing

{{Infobox_Company
| company_name = [[Company_Name:=Slow Exposure]]
| company_logo = [[Image:Bridget lingerie.jpg |thumb|One of our recent models.]]
| company_slogan = ''Real Women. Real Beauty.''
| genre = [[Erotic blog]]
| foundation = [[Year_Started:=2009|[[2009]]]]
| products = [http://www.slowexposure.com SlowExposure.com]
| contact = [http://info@slowexposure.com e-mail]
}}

'''Slow Exposure''' is an acclaimed<ref>[http://fleshbot.com/5447396/slow-exposure-perfects-the-art-of-the-tease Fleshbot, retrieved March 5, 2010]</ref> New York-based erotic blog featuring women in an informal interview situation gradually disrobing on instructions from an off-screen voice. The models are recruited through responses to advertisements and casting calls. Almost all are amateurs with no previous experience of nude modeling. The aim of the website is to produce erotic material featuring nudity, and the implied exhibitionism and voyeurism, while avoiding the cliches of internet pornography. The content is softcore, and the site places a premium on respecting the persons and individuality of the models. All content is produced for, and is unique to, Slow Exposure.

== Structure and Membership ==

Each interview is divided into five segments. In the first, the model introduces herself. In the second, viewers learn more about her and what she is wearing, and some of her clothing is loosened or unfastened. In the third segment, she undressed to her bra and pants. These three segments are available free to all visitors to the site.

The fourth and fifth segments involve partial and finally complete nudity. These can be viewed by members only (subscription is currently $9.99 per month). The site generally posts a nude model each week. The interviews are unrehearsed.

==References==
<div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:1; column-count:1;">
<references />
</div>

== External links ==
*[http:www.slowexposure.com SlowExposure.com]
*[http://slowexposure.weebly.com/index.html Booking Page]

Consumer economy

2010-03-05T22:13:34Z

Loppy:

:''This article in MyWikiBiz [[Help:Main Space|Main article]] space is published with "all rights reserved" by the component contributor(s) to the article. You must obtain [[Directory:Gregory J. Kohs|express written permission]] to copy or re-use this article.''
<br>
The '''consumer economy''' is that portion of the overall economic system that is dependent on individual or household consumer expenditures. Goods that embody the consumer economy would include [[food]], clothing, housing, [[furniture]], appliances, [[automobile]]s, etc.; while services that comprise the consumer economy would include [[restaurant]]s, private hospital care, personal [[bank]]ing, commercial airlines, etc. Thus, the consumer economy is distinct from (yet related to) the industrial economy which emphasizes trade between corporations (investment banking, industrial machinery, [[chemical]]s, etc.), and the public sector which involves the delivery of governmental services (bridges and roads, sewer, public education, etc.).

When the economy of a nation is described as a '''consumer economy''' (sometimes '''[[consumer society]]'''), this implies that the nation's prosperity is significantly based in sustainable consumer demand for goods and services. Economists have suggested that, in a consumer economy, the concept of "enough, or more than enough" is undermined; the demand for goods and services, and the availability of income to purchase them, is assumed to be constant.<ref>John K. Galbraith, "Foreword" in Neva R. Goodwin, Frank Ackerman and David Kiron (eds), ''The Consumer Society'' (Island Press, WashingtonD.C., 1997, page xxi)</ref> The result is a close relationship between employment and income from employment on the one hand, and production of goods and services on the other.<ref>Ibid.</ref> It has been said that "(a) consumerist society is one in which the possession of an increasing number and variety of goods and services is the highest cultural aspiration and the surest perceived route to personal happiness, social status, and national success."<ref>Jerome Segal, "Alternatives to Mass Consumption" ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 15:4, 1995, pages 27 to 29.</ref>

==History==
The consumer economy began to expand exponentially in the early- to mid-20th century. Around the early 20th century, the growth of consumer rights and activist movements also commenced, with the creation of organizations such as the National Consumers League.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/ccpres05.html Introduction to ''Prosperity and Thrift''], from ''Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929'', Library of Congress.</ref> It has been said that two-thirds of jobs in the [[Directory:United States|United States]] are now tied either directly or indirectly to the consumer economy.<ref>''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670887366?ie=UTF8&tag=mywikibizcom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0670887366 The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and The Next Episode of Capitalism]'', Shoshana Zuboff & James Maxmin, [http://books.google.com/books?id=pn-7AAAAIAAJ&q=%22in+the+US+economy+were+directly+or+indirectly+dependent+upon+consumer+expenditures+making+consumers+responsible%22&dq=%22in+the+US+economy+were+directly+or+indirectly+dependent+upon+consumer+expenditures+making+consumers+responsible%22&lr=&ei=jtQCS6ubM5zGNfqnzNoO pg. 8].</ref> Such a reliance on one aspect of the overall economy has its own set of risks.

Professor Peter Spencer of the Ernst & Young [http://www.ey.com/UK/en/Issues/Business-environment/Financial-markets-and-economy/Economic-Outlook ITEM Club] concluded that the consumer economy in the United Kingdom would not recover from the late-2008 recession until 2011. <ref>Wallop, Henry & Conway, Edmund (2008). [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/3227351/Consumer-economy-will-not-recover-until-2011.html "Consumer economy will not recover until 2011"]. ''The Telegraph'', telegraph.co.uk.</ref> While Ann Kramer has proposed a new economic system as an alternative to a consumer-based economy, due to the effects of the recent recession. Dubbed "Partnerism", the proposed economic framework would implement equal cooperation between all sectors of the economy, elevating the significance of what the author perceives as marginalized sectors. Kramer believes that the 2008 bailout of financial institutions in the United States was not a sustainable model, commenting that "Wall Street has been acting like drunken fools". <ref>Kramer, Ann (2008). [http://www.opednews.com/articles/Time-to-reinvent-the-econo-by-Ann-Kramer-080925-427.html "Beyond the Consumer Economy: Partnerism"]. ''OpEdNews''</ref>

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<div style="overflow:auto;height:1px;">
[[Keyword:=Consumer economy]]
[[Keyword:=Industrial economy]]
[[Keyword:=B2C]]
</div>
<br>

==References==
{{reflist}}

Consumer economy

2010-03-05T22:13:01Z

Loppy: Expanded definition

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<br>
The '''consumer economy''' is that portion of the overall economic system that is dependent on individual or household consumer expenditures. Goods that embody the consumer economy would include [[food]], clothing, housing, [[furniture]], appliances, [[automobile]]s, etc.; while services that comprise the consumer economy would include [[restaurant]]s, private hospital care, personal [[bank]]ing, commercial airlines, etc. Thus, the consumer economy is distinct from (yet related to) the industrial economy which emphasizes trade between corporations (investment banking, industrial machinery, [[chemical]]s, etc.), and the public sector which involves the delivery of governmental services (bridges and roads, sewer, public education, etc.).

When the economy of a nation is described as a '''consumer economy''' (sometimes '''[[consumer society]]''', this implies that the nation's prosperity is significantly based in sustainable consumer demand for goods and services. Economists have suggested that, in a consumer economy, the concept of "enough, or more than enough" is undermined; the demand for goods and services, and the availability of income to purchase them, is assumed to be constant.<ref>John K. Galbraith, "Foreword" in Neva R. Goodwin, Frank Ackerman and David Kiron (eds), ''The Consumer Society'' (Island Press, WashingtonD.C., 1997, page xxi)</ref> The result is a close relationship between employment and income from employment on the one hand, and production of goods and services on the other.<ref>Ibid.</ref> It has been said that "(a) consumerist society is one in which the possession of an increasing number and variety of goods and services is the highest cultural aspiration and the surest perceived route to personal happiness, social status, and national success."<ref>Jerome Segal, "Alternatives to Mass Consumption" ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 15:4, 1995, pages 27 to 29.</ref>

==History==
The consumer economy began to expand exponentially in the early- to mid-20th century. Around the early 20th century, the growth of consumer rights and activist movements also commenced, with the creation of organizations such as the National Consumers League.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/ccpres05.html Introduction to ''Prosperity and Thrift''], from ''Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929'', Library of Congress.</ref> It has been said that two-thirds of jobs in the [[Directory:United States|United States]] are now tied either directly or indirectly to the consumer economy.<ref>''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670887366?ie=UTF8&tag=mywikibizcom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0670887366 The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and The Next Episode of Capitalism]'', Shoshana Zuboff & James Maxmin, [http://books.google.com/books?id=pn-7AAAAIAAJ&q=%22in+the+US+economy+were+directly+or+indirectly+dependent+upon+consumer+expenditures+making+consumers+responsible%22&dq=%22in+the+US+economy+were+directly+or+indirectly+dependent+upon+consumer+expenditures+making+consumers+responsible%22&lr=&ei=jtQCS6ubM5zGNfqnzNoO pg. 8].</ref> Such a reliance on one aspect of the overall economy has its own set of risks.

Professor Peter Spencer of the Ernst & Young [http://www.ey.com/UK/en/Issues/Business-environment/Financial-markets-and-economy/Economic-Outlook ITEM Club] concluded that the consumer economy in the United Kingdom would not recover from the late-2008 recession until 2011. <ref>Wallop, Henry & Conway, Edmund (2008). [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/3227351/Consumer-economy-will-not-recover-until-2011.html "Consumer economy will not recover until 2011"]. ''The Telegraph'', telegraph.co.uk.</ref> While Ann Kramer has proposed a new economic system as an alternative to a consumer-based economy, due to the effects of the recent recession. Dubbed "Partnerism", the proposed economic framework would implement equal cooperation between all sectors of the economy, elevating the significance of what the author perceives as marginalized sectors. Kramer believes that the 2008 bailout of financial institutions in the United States was not a sustainable model, commenting that "Wall Street has been acting like drunken fools". <ref>Kramer, Ann (2008). [http://www.opednews.com/articles/Time-to-reinvent-the-econo-by-Ann-Kramer-080925-427.html "Beyond the Consumer Economy: Partnerism"]. ''OpEdNews''</ref>

{{gkgoogle}}

<br>
<div style="overflow:auto;height:1px;">
[[Keyword:=Consumer economy]]
[[Keyword:=Industrial economy]]
[[Keyword:=B2C]]
</div>
<br>

==References==
{{reflist}}