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AGENCY, FREEDOM AND CHOICE IBD

SPRINGER
04 / 2019
9789402416138
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Sinopsis

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 freedomâÇÖs 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 freedomâÇÖs agency value has far reaching consequences for existing results in the freedom ranking literature: it requires one to move beyond a personâÇÖs given all-things-considered preferences to the values underlying a personâÇÖs preference formation. Furthermore, it requires, as Binder argues, one to account (only) for those differences between choice options which really matter to people. á 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 freedomâÇÖs agency value can the capability approach keep its promises. âÇïá

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102,38