reject most traditional advertising and use multiple sources—traditional media, the Internet, product-rating magazines, recommendations from friends in-the-know—to not only research a product, but to negotiate price and other benefits.

Proactive consumers

Explanation:

Proactive means acting in advance to deal with an unexpected change or difficulty in the future.

Proactive consumers refers a group of consumers who are an intrinsic part of the creative process of developing a product. They are the active consumers. They are not a part of the passive consumers where industry dumps consumer goods.

Proactive consumers are part of the production and marketing process of a product. They make research on how a product can be improved on.

Proactive consumers reject most traditional advertising and use multiple sources—traditional media, the Internet, product-rating magazines, recommendations from friends in-the-know—to not only research a product, but to negotiate price and other benefits.

the correct answer is economics is a game without winners or losers.

unlike sports or games economic is a game without losers or winner rather it is a game where everyone wins. parties of business doing businesses exchange money with each other and hence exchange is done on the basis of goods. one party takes the goods and other sales it so there is winner on both sides. each party values more highly the good it gets than the good it gives up. both sides exchange only because both intend to increase their value. so there is no concept of lose or win.