On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:42:47 -0500, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Bill Bartlett wrote:
>
> >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
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