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Measuring autonomy freedom
Sebastiano BavettaSebastiano BavettaVitorocco Peraginesubject
FreedomEconomics and EconometricsComputer sciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectFreedom of choiceDecision makerrepublicanismInternational political economySocial psychologyMathematical economicsSocial Sciences (miscellaneous)AxiomAutonomyPhilip PettitPublic financeIntuitionmedia_commondescription
In the measurement of autonomy freedom, the admissible potential preference relations are elicited by means of the concept of ‘reasonableness’. In this paper we argue for an alternative criterion based on information about the decision maker’s ‘awareness’ of his available opportunities. We argue that such an inter- pretation of autonomy fares better than that based on reasonableness. We then introduce some axioms that capture this intuition and study their logical impli- cations. In the process, a new measure of autonomy freedom is characterized, which generalizes some of the measures so far constructed in the literature.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-01-01 | Social Choice and Welfare |