Rationality and Freedom

Amartya Sen

Preface

Part I General Introductions

1. Introduction: Rationality and Freedom

2. The Possibility of Social Choice

Part II Rationality: Form and Substance

3. Internal Consistency of Choice

4. Maximization and the Act of Choice

5. Goals, Commitment, and Identity

6. Rationality and Uncertainty

7. Non-Binary Choice and Preference

Part III Rationality and Social Choice

8. Rationality and Social Choice

9. Individual Preference as the Basis of Social Choice

10. Social Choice and Justice

11. Information and Invariance in Normative Choice

Part IV Liberty and Social Choice

12. Liberty and Social Choice

13. Minimal Liberty

14. Rights: Formulation and Consequences

Part V Perspectives and Policies

15. Positional Objectivity

16. On the Darwinian View of Progress

17. Markets and Freedoms

18. Environmental Evaluation and Social Choice

19. The Discipline of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Part VI Freedom and Social Choice: The Arrow Lectures Introductory Remarks

20. Opportunities and Freedoms

21. Processes, Liberty and Rights

22. Freedom and the Evaluation of Opportunity

Name Index

Subject Index