The aim of this paper is to provide a different, somewhat more general, approach to the axiomatic ranking of opportunity sets in term of freedom of choice. The opportunity ransking is defined axiomatically relative to some standard of freedom or theory of freedom. The paper provides a general...

The paper presents an axiomatic analysis of opportunity ranking within a logical framework. It established that any opportunity or freedom ranking is cimpletely determined by a subjacent logical chain that is interpreted as a freedom standard. However, a preferential interpretation of the chain...

The paper applies a technique developed in artifical intelligence to frame and analyze on the foundational level Sen’s critique of internal consistency conditions in various choice situations

We consider the problem of ranking sets of alternatives. Standard approaches to this problem regard the addition of an alternative to a set containing one element as enhancing choice. We argue that this monotonicity axiom may not be desirable when an agent is uncertain as to the value of this...

The present paper analyses different formulations of individual rights within a traditional social choice-theoretic framework and a game form framework. It proposes a theory of social situations as a basis for some new formulations of individual rights that better incorporates some positive...

The paper claims that the Monotone Consistency condition utilized by Baigent in his proof of the impossibility theorem is too strong. We factorize this condition into two different weaker conditions and show that they are inconsistent with some variants of the Simple Uncertainty Aversion and the...

The paper presents an axiomatic analysis of opportunity ranking within a logical framework. It establishes that any opportunity or freedom ranking is completely determined by a subjacent logical chain that is interpreted as a freedom standard. However, a preferential interpretation of the chain...