56 SOCIAL SCIENTIST interesting issues as well, and our discussion here is not exhaustive Also our choice of the issues from the book has been -entirely led by our subjective preferences. 1 Amartya Sen, Choice ^ Welfare and Measurement, Oxford University Press, 1982. 2 The concept of utility itself, sametimes it has been suggested, captures diverse types of satisfaction that commodities bring to a consumer, e g, taste, nutrition, accommodation, comfort, warmth etc. In this sense it may be looked upon as an aggregative index of many such satisfactions that commodities produce. Incidentally, such aggregation itself may be impossible if we insist on some properties of the aggregate. 3 For an interesting interpretation of Rousseau's distinction between tlie 'general will' and the "will of all" see W G Runciman and A K Sen, "Games, Justice and General Will", Mind, October 1965. 4 This notion of "Ideal State" of course does not correspond to that of the state as Marxists understand it. It truly is a supervisory organ of the boby collective and corresponds to Hegel's notion of the state, "the reality of the ethical idea'' and "the image and reality of reason". See F Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Progress Publishers Edition, p 166. 5 See F Engels, The Role of Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man.