Freedom, Rationality, and Social Choice
The Arrow Lectures and Other Essays
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-19-829707-9 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen concentrates on social choice and liberty. It includes much unpublished material and should be of interest for all those interested in the nexus between economics, politics, and philosophy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-829707-9 (9780198297079)
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Content
Introduction - the price of freedom in economic and social analysis. Part 1 Freedom and social choice - the Arrow lectures: preference and freedom; opportunity, process, and social choice. Part 2 Social choice, liberty, and justice: liberty and social choice; social choice and justice; justice - means versus freedoms; minimal liberty; rationality and social choice; Part 3 Rationality and freedom of thought: goals, commitment, and identity; information and invariance in normative choice; internal consistency of choice; maximization and the act of choice. Part 4 Rights, capability, and freedom: rights and agency; rights as goals; capability and well-being. Part 5 Gender, position, and unfreedom: gender and cooperative conflicts; positional objectivity; missing women; Indian women - well-being and survival; public policy and personal freedom; individual freedom as social commitment; public action to remedy hunger; demography and welfare economics; political rights versus economic needs?; fertility and coercion.