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.