Maximization and the Act of Choice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23325787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amartya Sen (0000-0002-5265-1484) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 745 |
| Publication date | 1997-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Econometrica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-9682 • E-ISSN: 1468-0262 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2171939 |
| OpenAlex | W2085195137 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 151 |
| References cited | 1 |
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR). Biblioteca Centrale / CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche
Econometrics · Economics · Mathematical economics · Maximization · Microeconomics · Utility maximization · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Game Theory and Applications · Game Theory and Voting Systems
The Capability Approach and Well-Being Measurement for Public Policy
Reasonable utility functions and playing the cooperative way
Deux exemples de coop ration entre conomistes et ing nieurs du CemagrefTwo examples of economist and engineer cooperation
El individualismo ético como defensa de la igualdad
Por qué la equidad en salud
Biobanks and the ‘well-being’ of humanity
Prioritization Preferences among General Practitioners in Hungary
Humanizing development
Gobernanza e instituciones. Propuestas para una agenda de investigación
Elements of a Theory of Human Rights
Introducing Procedural Utility
Pareto, Consent, and Respect for Dignity
Being Independent is a Great Thing
Paretian Welfare Judgements and Bergsonian Social Choice
Trustworthiness and Social Capital in South Africa
Interpreting Berlin's Liberalism
Urban Poverty, Livelihood, and Gender
Social Choice and Public Reason
Value Incommensurability
CHAPTER 14 Consequentialism and Non‐Consequentialism
Uneindeutigkeit im Entscheiden – einige formale Klärungsversuche
CHAPTER 6 Rationality and Intransitive Preference
Human Rights and Adolescence
Direct Democracy Worldwide
The Possibility of Social Choice
Why health equity?
Time for a Radical Reappraisal of Tourist Decision Making? Toward a New Conceptual Model
Entrepreneurship and well-being
Sen, Sraffa and the revival of classical political economy
Social Choice, Nondeterminacy, and Public Reasoning
Naturalism and Moral Conventionalism
Measuring the Meta-Capability of Agency
The importance of incompleteness
Is Incomparability a Problem for Anyone?
Contractarianism
Commitment as Motivation
Sentimental fools
Structural Injustice and Democratic Practice
The Virtuous Cycle of Agreement
Evaluating the impact of marketing interventions on sugar-free and sugar-sweetened soft drink sales and sugar purchases in a fast-food restaurant setting
Searching for identity in the capability space
Dilemmas, Teleology, and Incomparable Value
The Reasonable, the Rational, and the Good
A pragmatic approach to operationalize impartiality
Social Values in Economic Environmental Valuation
Cost-Effectiveness, Incompleteness, and Discrimination
Acyclic population ethics and menu-dependent relations
Putting costs and benefits of ordeals together
A dual-process representation of moral judgment
Resolving Mill’s Absolutism Problem
On the aversion to incomplete preferences
Incommensurability and healthcare priority setting
The linguistic dead zone of value-aligned agency, natural and artificial
Incommensurability and population-level bioethics
The case for comparability
Internationalization at a distance via virtual mobility in the Global South
Researching the capabilities of people with disabilities
Message and Environment
Nudging and educating
Amartya Sen’s nonideal theory
What is democratic reliability? Epistemic theories of democracy and the problem of reasonable disagreement
The relative autonomy of women offenders' decision making
Sen on Freedom and Gender Justice
Normative economics and paternalism
Paretian dictators
Sustainability as Justice
Efficient Inequalities
Female teachers in Tanzania
The Revival of Classical Political Economy and the Cambridge Tradition
Ethics, Ontology and Capabilities
The Economic Contributions of Amartya Sen
Absent Desires
Too poor to be green consumers? A field experiment on revealed preferences for firewood in rural Guatemala
Using the Capability Approach to improve female teacher deployment to rural schools in Nigeria
Why are teachers absent? Utilising the Capability Approach and Critical Realism to explain teacher performance in Tanzania
Understanding Human Well-being
The behavioural ecology of irrational behaviours
How do We Compensate a Victim's Losses
“Just” accuracy? Procedural fairness demands explainability in AI-based medical resource allocations
Valuing Children
Value Relations
A More Plausible Collapsing Principle
When and why framing effects are neither errors nor mistakes
Public preferences for government spending in Canada
From Utilitarianism to Paternalism
Do markets foster selfishness
Resolving value conflicts in public AI governance
On “Consequentialism” and the Capability Approach
Putting Appadurai's “Capacity to Aspire” and Sen's Capability Approach into Dialogue
The Canniness of Ought
A Longitudinal Study of Well-Being of Older Europeans
Beyond fatalism
Economics and Identity
Valuing Freedoms
Why the Capability Approach
Sur la définition du choix rationnel dans le cas de préférences dépendant du contexte
A capability-approach perspective on regional development
AI in Public Decision‐Making
How to Be an Ethical Expressivist
Rules, Social Ontology and Collective Identity
| Unique citing works | 151 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,59 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 133 |