'The public interest' in regulation

The concept of 'the public interest' is often used in legal & political discourse, lending an air of legitimacy & respectability to exercises of power. But the term is rarely defined in any meaningful sense. This text considers abstract concepts of public interest from the literatu...

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Main Author: Feintuck, Mike
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2004, 2004
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:The concept of 'the public interest' is often used in legal & political discourse, lending an air of legitimacy & respectability to exercises of power. But the term is rarely defined in any meaningful sense. This text considers abstract concepts of public interest from the literature of law political science & economics
Physical Description:viii, 280 p.
ISBN:9780191699320
0191699322