Abstract
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.
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