Censorship Inc or Management Economics

Censorship, Inc.: The Corporate Threat to Free Speech in the United States

Author: Lawrence Soley

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is a landmark in the defense of free speech against government interference and suppression. In this book we come to see how it also acts as a smokescreen behind which a more dangerous and insidious threat to free speech can operate.

Soley shows how as corporate power has grown and come to influence the issues on which ordinary Americans should be able to speak out, so new strategies have developed to restrict free speech on issues in which corporations and property-owners have an interest.

Censorship, Inc. is a comprehensive examination of the vast array of corporate practices which restrict free speech in the United States today in fields as diverse as advertsing and the media, the workplace, community life, and the environment. Soley also shows how these threats to free speech have been resisted by activism, legal argument, and through legislation. Grounded in extensive research into actual cases, this book is at the same time a challenge to conventional thinking about the nature of censorship and free speech.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Private Censorship, Corporate Power	1
Pt. I	Speaking of Labor	21
2	Company Towns and Labor Camps	25
3	Dirty Work: Blacklisting and Silencing Employees	55
Pt. II	Uncivil Actions	81
4	SLAPPing Citizens	85
5	"Hog Tying" Critics: Agricultural Disparagement Statutes	111
Pt. III	Private Property, Public Silence	135
6	Freedom to Buy, Not Speak	139
7	Private Communities: Real Properties, Real Restrictions	167
Pt. IV	The Muted Media	191
8	Advertisers: Muscling the Media	195
9	Muzzling David: Corporate Media Goliaths	219
10	Freeing Speech	249
	Endnotes	265
	Index	297

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Management Economics

Author: Edwin Mansfield

The Fifth Edition of Managerial Economics heralds a new era for this classic text. Carrying on the tradition established by Edwin Mansfield in the book's earlier editions, Bruce Allen, Neil Doherty, and Keith Weigelt—all of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School—have prepared an exciting revision that capitalizes on proven strengths while embracing new developments in the field. Retaining a hallmark of Managerial Economics, the authors include a wealth of cases and applications that consistently anchor the exposition in the real world of business decision making. New to the Fifth Edition is a greater focus on applied microeconomics, with two new chapters, one on auctions and another on the principal-agent problems of firms. These new chapters, numerous new cases and applications throughout the book, and an exciting new package of electronic ancillaries promise to make the Fifth Edition of Managerial Economics the best yet.

Author Biography: W. Bruce Allenis professor of business and public policy, regional science, and transportation at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Neil A. Doherty is Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor and professor of insurance and risk management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Keith Weigelt is professor of strategy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Edwin Mansfield was a longtime professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania. His textbooks have been a staple in economics courses at thousands of colleges and universities around the world.