Rationality and freedom

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sen Amartya Kumar.
Published: Belknap Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, Mass.
Publication Dates: c2002.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Carrier Form: ix, 736 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0674009479 (alk. paper)
Index Number: C934
CLC: C934
D081
C912.68
Call Number: C912.68/S474
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.