On Procedural Freedom of Choice
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Abstract
Numerous works in the last decade have analyzed the question
of how to compare opportunity sets as a way to measure and evaluate
individual freedom of choice. This paper defends that, in many
contexts, external procedural aspects that are associated to an opportunity set should be taken into account when making judgements
about the freedom of choice an agent enjoys. We propose criteria
for comparing procedure-based opportunity sets that are consistent
with both the procedural aspect of freedom and most of the standard
theories of ranking opportunity sets.freedom of choice, opportunity sets, procedure-based
opportunity sets.