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Brandishing the First Amendment : commercial expression in America /

Piety, Tamara R.

Brandishing the First Amendment : commercial expression in America / Tamara R. Piety. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012. - xi, 328 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-319) and index.

Commercial and corporate speech -- The scope of commercial expression -- Why protect speech? Four fundamental interests -- Autonomy as a human interest -- Brands, information, and consumer "education" -- Advertising and manipulation -- Tough love paternalism -- The corporate person -- Commercial democracy -- Commercial expression and economic instability -- Commercial expression and environmental instability.

9780472117925 (cloth : alk. paper) 0472117920 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780472027729 (e-book) 0472027727 (e-book)

2011043629


Corporate speech--United States.
Freedom of speech--United States.
Advertising laws--United States.

Commercial free speech

KF4772 / .P54 2012

342.7308/53

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