On Procedural Freedom of Choice

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On Procedural Freedom of Choice

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Ritxar Arlegi () (Departamento de Economía-UPNA)
Dinko Dimitrov

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Dinko Dimitrov

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Numerous works in the last decade have analyzed the question of how to compare opportunity sets as a way to measure and evaluate individual freedom of choice. This paper defends that, in many contexts, external procedural aspects that are associated to an opportunity set should be taken into account when making judgements about the freedom of choice an agent enjoys. We propose criteria for comparing procedure-based opportunity sets that are consistent with both the procedural aspect of freedom and most of the standard theories of ranking opportunity sets.

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Paper provided by Departamento de Economía - Universidad Pública de Navarra in its series Documentos de Trabajo - Lan Gaiak Departamento de Economía - Universidad Pública de Navarra with number 0401.

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Date of creation: Feb 2004
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- Dimitrov, D. & Arlegi, R., 2004. "On procedural freedom of choice," Discussion Paper 9, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]

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