[EL] one final thought on Campaign finance reform and social choice

[Paul Lehto]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:28 PM, David A. Schultz <dschultz at gw.hamline.edu>wrote:

> Is there a distinct ontological public good distinct from personal
> preferences?
>

 I wonder if any of the voices here questioning the knowability or
determinability of the public interest in a given situation apply the same
logic to the knowability or determinability of the corporate interest in a
given situation?  If they do not similarly question the notion of the
corporate or company interest and believe that the corporate interest is
knowable while the public interest is not knowable, are they not, then,
stating that corporate interests can be determined and thus heard in a
"true" form, while the public interest, being indeterminate, can never be
heard in a "true" form?

It seems to me that if the public interest is indeterminate then business
or corporate interest is indeterminate as well because it presents similar
challenges in terms of how individual corporate stakeholder preferences are
aggregated into the corporate interest.

Paul Lehto, J.D.

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