legal term describing "common well-being" or "general welfare"
In social science and economics, public interest is "the welfare or well-being of the general public" and society.
While it has earlier philosophical roots and is considered to be at the core of democratic theories of government, often paired with two other concepts, convenience and necessity, it first became explicitly integrated into governance instruments in the early part of the 20th century.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).