Are U.S. advertising laws ruining competition? Are they helping
or hurting consumers? These questions are answered in the first
book ever published to present a comprehensive public policy
analysis of advertising law. Using insights from communications
theory and economic analysis, Professor Petty analyzes all of the
recent reported cases under the principal advertising laws. He
examines their tendency to discourage beneficial advertising such
as explicit comparisons, and analyzes their potential for
protecting consumers from significant injury caused by deceptive
advertising.
The book begins with an innovative analysis of the
Constitutional protection afforded advertising under the First
Amendment. Petty proposes a simple test for determining whether
particular advertising is fully or partially protected by the First
Amendment. This novel analysis continues with an overview of
advertising law from an evolutionary perspective and social science
perspectives on how advertising works. The bulk of the book
examines cases under the Lanham and Federal Trade Commission acts,
as well as advertising as regulated by the antitrust laws and the
U.S. International Trade Commission.
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