1. Peter Self, Econocrats and the Policy Process: The Politics and Philosophy of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Macmillan, London, 1975, pp. 155–165 discusses the Roskill Report. Self’s book is hereafter cited as: PPCBA.
2. D. W. Pearce, The Valuation of Social Cost, George Allen and Unwin, 197 8; hereafter cited as: Pearce, VSC. This point is defended in great detail in K. S. Shrader-Frechette, ‘Technology Assessment as Applied Philosophy of Science’, Science, Technology, and Human Values 6 (33), (1980), 34–41; hereafter cited as: Shrader-Frechette, TA.
3. Pearce, VSC, p. 134.
4. G. Myrdal, quoted by M. C. Tool, The Discretionary Economy, Goodyear, Santa Monica, 1979, p. 291.
5. A. M. Freeman, ‘Distribution of Environmental Quality’, in Environmental Quality Analysis (ed. by A. V. Kneese and B. T. Bower), Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 1972, pp. 247–248 makes this same point, as does Shrader-Frechette, TA, pp. 35–37.