consumer sovereignty
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconsumerandsovereignty
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consumer
noun[C]
uk/kənˈsjuː.mər/us/kənˈsuː.mɚ/
a person who buys goods or services for their ...
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sovereignty
noun[U]
uk/ˈsɒv.rɪn.ti/us/ˈsɑːv.rən.i/
the power of a country to control its ...
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(Definition ofconsumerandsovereigntyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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By contrast, the criterion ofconsumersovereigntyis not a direct implication of the principle of normative individualism.
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Likeconsumersovereignty, citizen sovereignty is a procedural criterion.
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Patient autonomy is not the same asconsumersovereignty.
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The criterion for desirability or 'efficiency' implied in the understanding of democratic institutions explained above may be called citizen sovereignty, in analogy toconsumersovereignty.
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In medicineconsumersovereigntyis attenuated, if not foreign to the domain.
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In the context of the health hazards associated with tobacco, such management clearly challenges traditional notions ofconsumersovereignty.
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That freedom must not be confused withconsumersovereignty.
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Furthermore, allowing for health states worse than death results in a complete range of utility values consistent with respondent preferences andconsumersovereignty.
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Consistent withconsumersovereignty, respondents were assumed to be the best judges of their own welfare; therefore, fates worse than death were permitted.
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Consistent with welfare rule ofconsumersovereignty, different preference orders were permitted; however, to ensure respondents understood tasks assigned, respondents providing different preference orders were asked to explain their choices.
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Theoretically, asking patients to select scale anchors concordant with their preferences is more consistent with meeting requirements ofconsumersovereigntythan anchor assignment by a researcher or clinician.
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Central to business in a market economy is the doctrine ofconsumersovereignty: that subjective preferences and money determine access to commodities in the marketplace.
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Consumersovereigntycan be viewed critically or ironically as little more than a gloss to cover the inequalities of production.
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Whetherconsumersovereigntyis adopted as normative criterion for measuring the 'efficiency' of markets must be treated as a matter of prudence rather than a matter of principle.
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As applied science, constitutional economics seeks to provide advice for how to 'improve' the institutions of markets and politics in the sense of enhancingconsumersovereigntyand citizen sovereignty.
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Patient autonomy, however, falls short ofconsumersovereigntybecause patients do not have a right to receive whatever treatments they demand and are prepared to pay for.
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Due to that problem there is noconsumersovereignty.
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Surely, if we are to have competition,consumersovereigntymust be taken into account.
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