Chinese Consumer Behaviors & Life Patterns Yearbook

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A good reference tool for understanding Chinese market

Chinese Consumer Behaviors & Life Patterns Yearbook
Institute for Marketing Information
Manufacturer: Beijing Gehua Development Group
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 7800709264

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The Consumer Behavior & Life Patterns Yearbook has been published by the Beijing-based Institute for Marketing Information (IMI), Chinas leading market research firm. The IMI is the only organization licensed to conduct consumer research in China.

Best of all, the IMI Yearbook is written in both Chinese and fluent, professional English. The latest edition contains data gathered in Chinas six major markets: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan and Xi'an. The next issue will not be available until late next year.

The IMI Yearbook charts Chinese consumer preferences for 58 different commoditiesfrom shampoo to TVs, from life insurance to fast food. The 4,800-person survey also covers leisure activities and media exposure.

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I think chian is well odd...........2003-01-15

this book helped me very very little and I offened several china men and women in my visit and had a very bad time.

A good reference tool for understanding Chinese market.......2000-10-01

This IMI yearbook has been published consecutively for a couple of years in Chinese and I have used it in my research and consulting projects quite well. It comprises the largest and most detailed information about Chinese consumers' purchasing power, consumption preference and household goods, etc., among all such kinds of sources available in China so far. It is a quite useful tool, especially for consumer product companies which have entered into or will explore Chinese market. However due to sampling methodology and city coverage of the research, it does not accurately reflect the reality of whole China and should be used with other sources of information as corroboration.

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A sound framework for understaning environmental degradation.......2001-06-30

There's a lot of information out there about the destruction of the planet, but an understanding of where it comes from is harder to come by. Vulnerable Planet is a very useful starting point. Using historical materialism to trace the roots of environmental degradation, Foster breaks down some of the key debates, showing that it is not over-population, industrial production or humanity in of itself that is the problem. Rather the way that production and distribution are organized under capitalism that consistently puts the drive for profit above environmental sustainability. This book is short, but packed with information, statistics, and crucially a sound political framework from which to understand both the roots and the solution to the problem.

Slender but potent.......2000-07-29

This is a little book, but very informative, although some may be put off by its Marxist point of view. Environmental destruction, as Foster shows, is as old as humankind. Nevertheless destruction of the natural world has increased at an astonishing rate during modern times making ours a very vulnerable planet. Foster links this increase to a specific social system, capitalism, instead of industrialism in general as many other critics do. This is a thought-provoking connection to make, since our media is usually silent on this topic. According to Foster (and Marx), it seems our system, capitalism, has an inborn need to turn everything it can into a saleable commodity in order to make money. Moreover it has to keep expanding commodities into ever new fields in order to return profits on money already invested. Like Topsy, then, the laws of its development tell it to either grow or die. Thus, when venture capitalists look at nature, they don't see what is living there; they see limitless raw material to be processed and sold, and if they don't do it, some competitor will. It is this relentless engine of development and destruction that has made the planet vulnerable. Thus Foster blames the problem on the way our economy operates, and not on technology in general. Critics should examine his arguments.

A couple of other subjects Foster discusses are worthy of review, given how they are usually talked about. On the topic of population and poverty, Malthus, an 18th century clergyman, famously blames poverty on the poor. The poor keep having kids when they shouldn't, he argues, which is why there are more hungry mouths to feed than food to feed them. So, the lesson is don't feed them, they'll just have more kids. Being a parson and a kind of Newt Gingrich of his time, he would leave the wretched to the mercies of God. On the other hand, Foster (and Marx) take an historical perspective on overpopulation. Capital must have the poor, because wage levels depend on having an excessive number of poor people around. Employers need them as so-called replacement workers, should their own employees strike for higher wages. Without that threat, wages would rise and employers would lose money. The poor are not God's creation, they are man's. (Considering how our chief cental banker Alan Greenspan acts by encouraging unemployment, Foster's approach makes sense.) Ecology is another important part of our planet's mounting crisis. In making his case that our economic system is the main cause of the problem, Foster discusses Barry Commoner's four informal laws of capitalist ecology. They are worth mentioning. 1) Only the cash nexus (money) is lasting; 2) Waste can go anywhere as long as it's out of the capitalist loop; 3) The free market knows best: 4) nature is the possession of the private property owner. Together these provisions make up capital's marching orders in its assault on nature. Provision #3 seems particularly destructive since it replaces the complex web of millions of years of natural evolution with profit-driven human decision. Moreover, these provisions pretty much describe how big corporations act in the real world.

Anyway, friends will find ammunition; foes will find points to ponder; and the appropriately curious will be rewarded. Foster's is a suppressed voice that really needs to be heard.

The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment. (book reviews): An article from: Dollars & Sense

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The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment. (book reviews): An article from: Dollars & Sense
Skip Barry
Manufacturer: Economic Affairs Bureau
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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Title: The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment. (book reviews)
Author: Skip Barry
Publication: Dollars & Sense (Newsletter)
Date: May 1, 1997
Publisher: Economic Affairs Bureau
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Hoover Institution economist Melvyn Krauss provides an easy-to-understand primer on why international markets serve national economies well. Protectionism in all its forms takes a beating on these pages. Krauss goes after environmentalists who opposed NAFTA, human rights activists worried about child labor, and consumer advocates concerned about safety. Closed economies do not advance any of these interests, says Krauss. His arguments occasionally proceed through straw men (a newspaper column by Anna Quindlen is the centerpiece of one section), but they are sound and persuasive. We all want fair trade, but Krauss shows that we're not likely to get it unless we have free trade first.

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There can be no doubt, writes economist Melvyn Krauss, that the prosperity of the industrial nations since the Second World War has been due largely to global specialization and interdependence. No one country does all tasks today -- products are designed in one country, produced in another and assembled in a third. The increased standard of living resulting from global specialization in turn has led to the growth of the modern welfare state, including an increased demand for economic security and social measures which guarantee politically-determined minimum consumption standards for citizens. Ironically, says Krauss, as the debate over the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA), the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the recently established World Trade Organization demonstrate, today's welfare state has evolved into a protectionist state. U.S. consumer advocates (Ralph Nader) see free trade as a threat to consumerist legislation. U.S. environmentalists (Jerry Brown) see free trade as a threat to environmental legislation. U.S. human rights advocates (Anna Quindlin) see free trade as a threat to human rights abroad. In How Nations Grow Rich, Krauss argues there is no inherent reason why the growth of the welfare state in the Western industrial countries should conflict with free trade that is, there is no inherent reason for the welfare state to be protectionist. Exposing fallacious "welfare state" arguments for protection, Krauss makes a powerful case for free trade in general, and NAFTA in particular, as mechanisms for raising U.S. living standards. Americans are made better off through a reallocation of U.S. productive resources from lower-to-higher productivity uses--from textiles to computers, for example. Moreover, by raising wages in Mexico relative to the U.S., Krauss expects NAFTA to help reduce both legal and illegal immigration. Were states like California to reduce their generous social services and affirmative action programs, labor immigration from Mexico would fall to politically acceptable levels. Krauss' novel insight that migration and foreign trade are alternative means of effectuating international exchange is used in this lively and informative book to shed light on a host of important policy issues. By the very act of restricting textile and apparel imports, the U.S. virtually compels foreign textile workers to migrate to the U.S. The European Union's tariff against East European exports provokes a flood of Eastern workers to Western Europe. In How Nations Grow Rich, Krauss dispatches both traditional and newer arguments for protection with unusual verve and clarity. Addressing the belief that protectionism boosts employment, he points out that import restrictions can destroy U.S. jobs when imposed on materials we use as parts. For example, in 1991, Apple and Toshiba suffered a dramatic increase in their production costs as a result of a 63% tariff on imported Japanese flat-panel display screens. This "protect-America" policy backfired, causing these two mega-companies to move their production facilities abroad. In response to protectionist demands that the U.S. close its markets until Japan reduces its trade barriers against U.S. goods--that trade be fair before it can be free--Krauss points out that in a market economy where consumers are kings, only a consumer-based equity standard is valid. Thus what the "fair trade" protectionist argument really comes down to is the nonsensical proposition that because foreign countries damage their consumers by foolish protectionist measures, equity demands the United States follow suit. This wide-ranging and stimulating book clarifies such important and often inaccessible issues as development policy, foreign aid, trade sanctions, child labor, human rights trade linkages, immigration, European Monetary Union and affirmative action trade policies. How Nations Grow Rich is must reading for anyone concerned with public policy and international economics.

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Useful Introduction.......2000-08-27

A reasonable quick introduction to free trade from someone who is obviously much in favour of it. Doesn't go deeply into things and is heavily based on fairly recent US-orientated examples. It appears to be reasonably well researched and the author backs up his points well but the book does not really grip or inspire you.

Poorly written, Badly Organized and Factually Incomplete.......2000-02-04

This book presented an immensly skewed version of the realities of free trade's impacts on global society at large. It glossed over very real arguements against free trade and instead inflated what was obviously a predetermined and subjectively biased agenda in favor of the standard free trade dogma that has become so prevalent in corporatized American thinking. A must read for those who haven't yet read the typical free trade drivel, but a snoozer for those that have begun to see beyond it.

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Trade Policy and Economic Welfare
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