Your Money's Worth: A study in the waste of the consumer's dollar is a 1927 nonfiction book on consumerism written by Stuart Chase and Frederick J. Schlink.
It analyzed the ways in which Americans made purchase decisions and gave measurements of the extent to which products could serve the purpose that manufacturer claims stated that they could.
The authors requested an "extension of the principle of buying goods according to impartial scientific tests rather than according to the fanfare and trumpets of the higher salesmanship.
[2] At the time of research, the authors found that the United States published 11,000 product specifications to guide manufacturing and that private industries had developed many more.
[4] The book’s release resulted in the publisher receiving hundreds of letters from people requesting more information about consumer products.