Social Evaluation Through Notional Choice

Sidney S. Alexander

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1974, vol. 88, issue 4, 597-624

Abstract: I. Introduction, 597. — II. The underlying metaphysics, 600. — III. A notional mechanism for social evaluation, 603. — IV. The theory is utilitarian, 606. — V. The conflation problem, 609. — VI. Specification of the good, 618. — VII. Pluralism in welfare standards, 621.

Date: 1974
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