Individual Rights Revisited

Wulf Gaerther, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Kotaro Suzumura

Discussion Paper Series from Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

Abstract: Since Sen's contribution on the impossibility of a Paretian liberal, his formulation of libertarian rights has been under debate. In this paper, we highlight some important strands in this debate, and achieve some conceptual clarification of the different and often incompatible views of individual rights. We demonstrate in terms of a counter-example and general reasoning that Sen's concept can, more often than not, be inconsistent with our intuitive view of rights and fails to capture important categories of rights. An alternative formulation in terms of game form is introduced, and its relative merit vis-a-vis Sen's formulation is discussed.

Date: 1991-03
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