What is it about?
It defines public interest and offers a framework of policy analysis that sets out to maximize the public interest. The theoretical underpinnings can be traced to John Stuart Mill, John Rawls, and John Maynard Keynes.
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Why is it important?
The ex ante approach to defining the public interest offers a new perspective for policy design. The explicit consideration of human nature also helps policy designers to work out what may succeed.
Perspectives
Applications of the perspective are discussed in various chapters, including healthcare reform, tort law reform, social security, etc.
Prof. Lok Sang Ho
Lingnan University
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This page is a summary of: Introduction, January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-1575-3_1.
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