threat to cohesion and representative democracy. Nevertheless, most German economists have never seriously addressed the …

This paper tracks economists' rising, yet elusive and unstable interest in collective decision mechanism after World … impossibilities, economists largely relied on the idea the policy ends they worked with reflected a “social consensus.” As the latter … crumbled in the 1960s, growing disagreement erupted on how to identify and aggregate those individual values which economists …

history of the moral philosophy of utilitarianism is described including its introduction into what became known as Cambridge … discussed. Essentially, the Cambridge economists were not particularly disturbed by the assumptions of cardinal utility and …

The paper reviews the basis for claims by anti-economists, over history and from both conservative and radical …