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Consumerism versus Producerism: On the Global Menace of "Consumerism" and the Mission of Comparative Law James Q. Whitman, Yale Download the Paper (PDF format) - August 22, 2006 Tell a colleague about it. Printing Tips: Select 'print as image' in the Acrobat print dialog if you have trouble printing. ABSTRACT: This paper aims to develop an analytic comparative law approach to the global spread of "consumerist" law. It expresses dismay at the failure of comparative law to offer any contribution to global debates over the sort of consumerism associated with the practices of firms like Wal-Mart, and proposes that scholars should revive the distinction between "consumerism" and "producerism" that was common in the 1930s. Focusing on questions of competition law, the law of retail and labor law, as well as on Wal-Mart's recent failure to penetrate German markets, it rejects the claim that consumerism is inevitably bound to triumph in the world at large, and in western Europe in particular. SUGGESTED CITATION: James Q. Whitman, "Consumerism versus Producerism: On the Global Menace of "Consumerism" and the Mission of Comparative Law" (August 22, 2006). Yale Law School. Yale Law School Faculty Scholarship Series. Paper 6. http://lsr.nellco.org/yale/fss/papers/6 | REPOSITORY HOME  | SEARCH  | MY ACCOUNT  | NELLCO HOME | Powered by bepress.