This paper examines the literature in welfare economics with a focus on individual rights and freedom, two important components in welfare economics. The paper discusses conceptions of rights and freedom intuitively and presents a critical examination of the existing literature

This chapter discusses freedom and its value. We focus on the conceptual structure of freedom and the value of freedom. We also discuss several issues relating to the measurement of freedom and the value of freedom, and the notion of opportunity sets, a key component of the conceptual structure...