Rationality and Freedom

By Amartya Sen

Book Overview

Revised

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674013514
• ISBN13: 9780674013513
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Reducing assumptions about rational choice

I found this book refreshing and insightful, it shares Sen's thoughts on how to value freedom as an aspect of choice in and of itself: If I would choose x anyhow, how much does it matter that I also am offered y & z as options. Additionally he discusses plausible scenarios in which a selection is dependent upon the menu of choices offered e.g., given options of {x,y} I choose x, given options of {x,y,a,b} I choose y. That said this book is a compendium of papers with the attendant repetition and overlap. The introduction is the best part.