>And don't stop there, treat corporations as public goods too. It
>only requires some minor tweaking of the legislative framework.
>After all, corporations are already accountable to the public in the
>sense that they are required to make their finances public. But
>perhaps that could be extended and expanded, so that corporations
>are increasingly required to be more accountable. Until eventually,
>corporations are forced to become public goods like charities, their
>very aims having to pass statutory public interest tests, audits of
>the net public benefit of what they do and so forth.
As I recall, that's pretty similar to the intriguing proposals made by Diane Elson in a New Left Review article 10-15 years ago - "socialize the market," she said. And making corps fully transparent was one of her ideas.
Doug