Freedom of choice: John Stuart Mill and the tree of life

Alcalde Unzu, Jorge; Ballester Oyarzun, Miguel Ángel; Nieto Vázquez, Jorge

doi:10.1007/s13209-011-0053-8

dc.creator	Alcalde Unzu, Jorge	es_ES
dc.creator	Ballester Oyarzun, Miguel Ángel	es_ES
dc.creator	Nieto Vázquez, Jorge	es_ES
dc.date.accessioned	2015-10-16T09:44:58Z
dc.date.available	2015-10-16T09:44:58Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.identifier.issn	1869-4187 (Print)
dc.identifier.issn	1869-4195 (Electronic)
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/2454/18597
dc.description.abstract	This essay deals with the notion and content of freedom of choice proposing a new set up and a new family of measures for this concept which is, indeed, an ethical value of paramount importance in a well ordered and open society. Following some ideas of John StuartMill, we propose that freedom of choice has to be understood not in a single stage of choice, but in the ordered collection of choices that a person can make in her life.We then suggest to represent a life in a tree structure, where each node represents a state of life and the edges between nodes will represent possible decisions in life. In this new framework, we propose a set of axioms that imply the following family of measures of lifetime’s freedom of choice: the lifetime’s freedom of choice has to be evaluated by a weighted sum of all possible states of life an individual might visit, with weights representing the number of decisions the individual took to reach that state.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Education through grants ECO2008-04756, ECO2009-11213, ECO2009- 12836, Ramon y Cajal program, FEDER, and the Barcelona Economics Program of CREA is gratefully acknowledged.	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	Springer-Verlag	en
dc.relation.ispartof	SERIEs, March 2012, Volume 3, Issue 1-2, pp 209-226	en
dc.rights	This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Freedom of choice	en
dc.subject	Tree of life	en
dc.subject	Autonomy	en
dc.title	Freedom of choice: John Stuart Mill and the tree of life	en
dc.type	Artículo / Artikulua	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	en
dc.contributor.department	Economía	es_ES
dc.contributor.department	Ekonomia	eu
dc.rights.accessRights	Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia	es
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1007/s13209-011-0053-8
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN//ECO2008-04756/ES/	en
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN//ECO2009-11213/ES/	en
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN//ECO2009-12836/ES/	en
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13209-011-0053-8
dc.type.version	Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa	es
dc.type.version	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion	en

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