On the Consistency of Libertarian Values

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9727148
AutoresPrasanta K Pattanaik (0000-0002-3930-0647, autor de correspondencia)
Año1988
Volumen55
Número220
Páginas517
Fecha de publicación1988-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEconomica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2553913
OpenAlexW2078373022
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas4

Amartya Sen's paradox of the Paretian liberal has been generally interpreted as reflecting a conflict between individual rights and even the weakest versions of welfarism, and several writers have suggested resolutions of the paradox that give priority to individual rights over the Pareto principle. In this paper, it is argued that there is an inherent tension between individual rights and several group rights that have the same intuitive foundation as many individual rights. It is claimed that a resolution of Sen's paradox, which respects individual rights, will involve giving up values which are libertarian in their origin. Copyright 1988 by The London School of Economics and Political Science

Consistency (knowledge bases) · Economics · Foundation (evidence) · Law and economics · Libertarianism · Pareto principle · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Welfare · Welfarism · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Mathematics · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Philosophy and Ethics