Abstract

This paper develops a formal approach to evaluating freedom in interactive settings based on the literatures on preference for exibility and measurement of diversity. The approach posits that freedom has an instrumental component{grounded in preferences{ and an intrinsic component. The philosophical justication and implications of the approach are considered. In particular, we discuss the nature of the required value judgments. Potential conicts between freedom and eciency are explored. On a technical level, the paper extends the notion of a diversity measure (Nehring and Puppe 2002) to menus of lotteries, which is what is needed to evaluate freedom when many agents seek exibility simultaneously.

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