For Hyde, redressing the balance between private (corporate, individual) and common (public) interests depends not just on effective policy but also on recovering the idea of the cultural commons as a deeply American concept.
There has been plenty of debate in the academic literature about the nature of the common good or public interest in planning.
Common sense and the public interest drove the switch: With the subprime lending scandal portending up to 2 million foreclosures through 2008, too many troubled borrowers would be homeless before there was time to work out their loans individually, harming them and entire communities.
This assault rests on the supposed superiority of common carriage regulation and "public interest" mandates over not just free markets and property rights, but over general individual liberties and freedom of speech in particular.
They're not just targeting public employees and public employee unions, but the very concepts of a common good and a public interest.
To take just one obstacle, lawmakers fill out disclosure forms by hand; when the form was posted on the Internet this summer, it took two public interest groups, Common Cause/NY and New York Public Interest Research Group; a newspaper, The New York World at Columbia University; and two interns working for two weeks to make sense of it all.
It proposes correcting the way market forces work so that they serve the public interest and the common good.
Land is a finite resource and should be owned and used in the public interest for the common good of all the people of Scotland.
"Under the current circumstances where our state needs a strong voice in Washington on so many different issues," Mr. Quinn said, "I don't think it's in the public interest or the common good to have a U.S. senator who has to spend an undue amount of time going over and over matters with respect to how he obtained the office".
Greens put the common good before corporate greed, and the public interest before private profit.
