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Agency, Freedom and Choice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Agency, Freedom and Choice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Theory and Decision Library A:, 53
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In this book, Binder shows that at the heart of the most prominent
arguments in favour of value-neutral approaches to overall freedom
lies the value freedom has for human agency and development. Far
from leading to the adoption of a value-neutral approach, however,
ascribing importance to freedom's agency value requires one to
adopt a refined value-based approach. Binder employs an axiomatic
framework in order to develop such an approach. She shows that a
focus on freedom's agency value has far reaching consequences for
existing results in the freedom ranking literature: it requires one
to move beyond a person's given all-things-considered preferences
to the values underlying a person's preference formation.
Furthermore, it requires, as Binder argues, one to account (only)
for those differences between choice options which really matter to
people. Binder illustrates the implications of her analysis for the
evaluation of public policy and human development with the
capability approach: only if sufficient importance is ascribed to
freedom's agency value can the capability approach keep its
promises.
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