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This essay deals with the notion and content of freedom of choice proposing a new set up and a new family of measures … some ideas of John StuartMill, we propose that freedom of choice has to be understood not in a single stage of choice, but … this new framework, we propose a set of axioms that imply the following family of measures of lifetime's freedom of choice …
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measure of freedom is proposed which is apt to interpersonal comparisons of opportunity sets. Individual choice freedom may … that progressive taxation redistributes freedom in favour of the poor, all the more so when public revenues are used to … finance the public provision of goods, in which case overall freedom may result enlarged …
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measure is not based on pivotality, but rather on a measure of freedom of choice in individual decisions. Indeed, I use the …
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This essay deals with the notion and content of freedom of choice proposing a new set up and a new family of measures … some ideas of John StuartMill, we propose that freedom of choice has to be understood not in a single stage of choice, but … this new framework, we propose a set of axioms that imply the following family of measures of lifetime's freedom of choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317104
studies, we investigate the role of the freedom of choice as a key contributing construct in influencing a person's happiness …. We define two hypothetical sub-constructs for the freedom of choice to fully develop a model of happiness. We name those …
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studies, we investigate the role of the freedom of choice as a key contributing construct in influencing a person s happiness …. We define two hypothetical sub-constructs for the freedom of choice to fully develop a model of happiness. We name those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030761
This paper reexamines key results from the measurement of opportunity freedom , or the extent to which a set of options … the effective freedom relation—and their variations are considered within a common axiomatic framework. Special attention … is given to representations of freedom rankings, with the goal of providing practical approaches for measuring …
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In der Londoner U-Bahn warnen die Worte „Mind the gap!“ vor der Lücke zwischen Bahn und Bahnsteigkante. Auch die Diskrepanz zwischen Sozialstruktur und Semantik kann zum Stolperstein werden. Wenn Semantiken ihre Passgenauigkeit verlieren und den gesellschaftlichen Diskurs mit Kategorien...
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Gesellschaftstheoretiker wie der Soziologe Niklas Luhmann machen darauf aufmerksam, dass es in der modernen Gesellschaft zu systematischen Diskrepanzen zwischen Semantik und Sozialstruktur kommt. Solche Diskrepanzen – also Fälle, in denen Sozialstruktur und Semantik nicht zueinander passen...
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There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions …, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries averaged over the period 2001-2010. Simple correlations show that …
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