![]() ![]() This capacious approach is utilized to illuminate the demands of rationality in individual choice (including decisions under uncertainty) as well as social choice (including cost benefit analysis and environmental assessment). ![]() Sen scrutinizes and departs from the standard criteria of rationality, and shows how it can be seen in terms of subjecting one’s values as well as choices to the demands of reason and critical scrutiny. This volume-the first of the two-is principally concerned with rationality and freedom. ![]() In two volumes on rationality, freedom, and justice, the distinguished economist and philosopher Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues. Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. ![]()
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