Rationality and freedom
- London Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2002
- ix,736 p. 24 cm; Hard
$39.95
1. Introduction : rationality and freedom -- 2. The possibility of social choice -- 3. Internal consistency of choice -- 4. Maximization and the act of choice -- 5. Goals, commitment, and identity -- 6. Rationality and uncertainty -- 7. Non-binary choice and preference -- 8. Rationality and social choice -- 9. Individual preference as the basis of social choice -- 10. Social choice and justice -- 11. Information and invariance in normative choice -- 12. Liberty and social choice -- 13. Minimal liberty -- 14. Rights : formulation and consequences -- 15. Positional objectivity -- 16. On the Darwinian view of progress -- 17. Markets and freedoms -- 18. Environmental evaluation and social change -- 19. The discipline of cost-benefit analysis -- Freedom and social choice : the Arrow lectures : introductory remarks -- 20. Opportunities and freedoms -- 21. Processes, liberty and rights -- 22. Freedom and the evaluation of opportunity.
Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In this, the first of two volumes, Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues.
978-0674009479
Social choice Rational choice theory Decision making Liberty