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Sweeney, Barbara – 1984
Noting that the "marketplace of ideas" metaphor often used in the study of freedom of speech is drawn from classical economics, this paper cites J. Murray's definition of the concept as "the idea that citizens in a democracy are well served if opinions of all kinds, accurate or inaccurate, are freely circulated." The first…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Court Litigation, Economics, Freedom of Speech
