Chapter 5: Demand and Consumer Behavior

Data on total personal consumption expenditures for the U.S. are provided at the website of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, www.bea.doc.gov. Data on family budgets is contained in the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditures, available at www.bls.gov.

Practical guides for consumers are provided at a government site, www.consumer.gov. The organization Public Citizen lobbies Washington "for safer drugs and medical devices, cleaner and safer energy sources, a cleaner environment, fair trade, and a more open and democratic government." Its website at www.citizen.org contains articles on many consumer, labor, and environmental issues.