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Brandishing the First Amendment : commercial expression in America / Tamara R. Piety.

By: Publication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.Description: xi, 328 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780472117925 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0472117920 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780472027729 (e-book)
  • 0472027727 (e-book)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.7308/53 23
LOC classification:
  • KF4772 .P54 2012
Contents:
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.

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.

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