ABSTRACT
W.A.Eltis et al. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970); ‘Comment on K.J.Arrow’s “Political and economic evaluation of social effects and externalities”’, in The Analysis of Public Output, edited by Julius Margolis (New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1970); and ‘Social evaluation through notional choice’, in Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1974, pp. 597-624.Alexander has drawn upon a North American tradition which includes John Dewey, William James, Sidney Hook, W.V.O. Quine, Morton White and others, where the present work has drawn upon a line of thought from Wittgenstein as interpreted and developed especially by John Wisdom and Renford Bambrough in England. C.S.Peirce was an acknowledged influence on the North American tradition and at the same time could have had some tenuous influence on Wittgenstein (see Note 19 to Chapter 5 above); if a common lineage is desired to be traced between the present work and that of Alexander, it could go back to Peirce in the first instance.
