<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> Politicians, legislators, academics, and consumer lawyers all base their regulatory interventions on a particular concept of the consumer. These proceedings of the General Concept of the Consumer conference aim to provide an up-to-date inventory of interdisciplinary and comparative foundations and to stimulate further dialogue on consumer models, both within and between disciplines.