Freedom in Economics: New Perspectives in Normative Analysis

ISBN-13: 9781138007048 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 312 str.

Marc Fleurbaey; Nicolas Gravel; Jean-Francois Laslier

Opis

This book presents a range of philosophers and economists who consider the definition and value of liberty; freedom in rights and equality of opportunity.

Spis treści

List of contributors, INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW, Part I: Liberty, 1. THE VALUES OF FREEDOM, 2. LIBERTY AND ITS VALUE, 3. INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND SOCIAL CHOICE, 4. FREEDOM OF CHOICE AND INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCES: A COMMENT ON CLEMENS PUPPE’S ‘INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND SOCIAL CHOICE’, 5. INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN A SOCIAL SETTING, 6. IMPERSONAL VERSUS OBJECTIVIST CONCEPTIONS OF FREEDOM: A COMMENT ON ‘INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN A SOCIAL SETTING’, Part II: Rights, 7. INTERPRETATIVE, SEMANTIC AND FORMAL DIFFICULTIES OF THE SOCIAL CHOICE RULE APPROACH TO RIGHTS, 8. DIFFICULTIES WITH THE SOCIAL CHOICE RULE APPROACH TO RIGHTS: SOME COMMENTS ON BRUNEL AND SALLES, 9. EFFECTIVITY FUNCTIONS, GAME FORMS, GAMES AND RIGHTS, 10. RIGHTS AND POWERS: REFLECTIONS ON BEZALEL PELEG’S THEORY OF EFFECTIVITY FUNCTIONS, GAME FORMS, GAMES AND RIGHTS, 11. RIGHTS, FREE EXCHANGE AND WIDESPREAD EXTERNALITIES, 12. A COMMENT ON ‘RIGHTS, EXCHANGE AND EXTERNALITIES’, Part III: Opportunities, 13. REAL FREEDOM AND DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE, 14. JUSTICE AS THE FAIR DISTRIBUTION OF FREEDOM: FETISHISM OR STOICISM?, 15. EQUALITY AMONG RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS, 16. EQUALITY VERSUS WHAT?, 17. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR HEALTH: PAYING THE COSTS OF SMOKING-INDUCED LUNG CANCER, 18. SOME TRADE-OFFS IN ROEMER’S MECHANISM, 19. THE EMPIRICAL ACCEPTANCE OF COMPENSATION AXIOMS, 20: COMMENTS ON THE EMPIRICAL ACCEPTANCE OF COMPENSATION AXIOMS’, Subject index, Name index

O autorze

Jean-François Laslier, Marc Fleurbaey, Nicolas Gravel and Alain Trannoy