Changing Conceptions of the "The Public Interest"

FAIN: FT-11690-73

Thomas K. McCraw
University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX 78712-0100)

To develop a sequence of working definitions of "the public interest" over the half-century following the progressive era, to determine how the economic and intellectual envrionments of one era lead into those of another, and how mandates issued by the lawmakers of one period are shaped by those of subsequent periods to serve new notions of the public good.