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Choice: Its Increase and its Value

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Much has been made in recent years of increasing the choice of the citizen-consumer. This article argues that the concept of ‘increasing choice’ is far more problematic than at first appears and has little intrinsic value in itself. Choice is only to be valued in itself in the sense that the process of choice or decision-making plays a part in our discovery of our own preferences. To justify the introduction of the market process on the grounds of increasing choice is doubly wrong; first, increasing choice is not in itself valuable and, secondly, what is valuable about the market has little to do with choice.

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  • Dowding, Keith, 1992. "Choice: Its Increase and its Value," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 22(3), pages 301-314, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:22:y:1992:i:03:p:301-314_00
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    1. Aveek Bhattacharya, 2020. "When and why might choice in public services have intrinsic (dis)value?," CASE Papers /220, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE.
    2. Hanna van Loo, 2010. "More freedom of choice but less preference satisfaction in parametric situations," Rationality and Society, , vol. 22(2), pages 237-252, May.
    3. Stephen J. Bailey, 2006. "Facilitating Choice In English Local Government," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 26(1), pages 11-17, March.
    4. Keith Dowding, 2011. "Republican freedom, rights, and the coalition problem," Politics, Philosophy & Economics, , vol. 10(3), pages 301-322, August.
    5. Bhattacharya, Aveek, 2020. "When and why might choice in public services have intrinsic (dis)value?," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 121526, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    6. Geoffrey Brennan & Michael Brooks, 2013. "Buchanan on Freedom," Studies in Public Choice, in: Dwight R. Lee (ed.), Public Choice, Past and Present, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 43-64, Springer.
    7. Park, Jeong-Yeol & Jang, SooCheong (Shawn), 2013. "Confused by too many choices? Choice overload in tourism," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 35(C), pages 1-12.

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