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- Title
What to Make of the Liberal Paradox?
- Authors
RISSE, MATHIAS
- Abstract
Sen's Liberal Paradox has received a good deal of attention in the literature. However, it is worth re-opening the discussion since the solutions offered so far have serious problems and since there is more to say about the nature of the problem displayed by the Liberal Paradox. I propose a new solution to the paradox in the following sense: First, I argue that its range of applicability is not very broad. Second, there is nothing paradoxical about a conflict of the principles involved in the Liberal Paradox. (Nagel's thesis of the ``fragmentation of value'' is important to make this point.) Third, I make a recommendation about how to remove conflicts when they occur in a restricted class of cases. For the other cases, no recommendation of similar appeal is available. But in the light of the first point, the availability of a generally applicable recommendation was not to be expected.
- Subjects
PARADOX; LOGIC; LIBERALISM; SOCIAL choice; DECISION making; DECISION theory
- Publication
Theory & Decision, 2001, Vol 50, Issue 2, p169
- ISSN
0040-5833
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1010301408403