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ANALELE UNIVERSITĂŢII DE VEST DIN TIMIŞOARA
SERIA FILOSOFIE ŞI ŞTIINŢE ALE COMUNICĂRII
VOL. IV (XXI), 2009
ISSN 1844 – 1351 (online)
ISSN 1842 – 6638 (print)
CONSUMPTION AND CONSUMER IN NEW FREE MARKET
ECONOMIES FROM EASTERN EUROPE.
ELEMENTS FOR A WEAK PHILOSOPHY OF CONSUMERISM
Adrian PĂCURAR
West University of Timişoara
The title of this article can mislead because for some it could indicate a
sort of effort designed to disclose a deep conceptual background able to
shed light upon the way in which we have to understand the consumer
behavior in the new market economies from Eastern Europe. Despite this
possible perception we want to underline from the very beginning that our
paper is strictly limited to few relatively general considerations about the
status of consumer in Eastern Europe after the collapse of communism.
These considerations, as it will be so evident, can lately lead to some further
developments but in this study we will be strictly limit our commentary to
them.
Consumption and consumer in Eastern Europe
after the collapse of communism
The first general observation that we make about the status of the
economies from Eastern Europe after the fall of communism it is linked by
their historic condition in opposition with the strong and mature capitalistic
economies from the West. After the collapse of communism the most