ABSTRACT
In the recent debate about the modelling of ‘freedom of choice’ in individual decision-making2 several authors have proposed an approach incorporating a set of different preference orderings which an individual may take into account when evaluating his opportunities (see, for instance, Arrow [2], Jones and Sugden [8] and Pattanaik and Xu [15]). In such a model, which I shall refer to as the multiple preference model of freedom, the intrinsic value of opportunities is conceptualized through the libertarian notion of an autonomous agent who is ‘free’ to choose the preference that is right for him. Indeed, this seems to be the central idea behind the analysis of [8] and [15].
