Professor Kent Greenfield, Boston College Law School, delivers an Osgoode Guest Seminar on October 22, 2012. We are fixated on the idea of choice. Our political theory is based on the consent of the governed. Our legal system is built upon the argument that people freely make choices and bear responsibility for them. And what slogan could better express the heart of our consumer culture than Have it your way ? In this talk, Kent Greenfield explores unsettling questions about the choices we make. What if they are more constrained and limited than we like to think? If we have less free will than we realize, what are the implications for us as individuals and for our society
The twenty-first century is often perceived as the century of personal freedom. Unlike the economic ...
Whether buying a pair of jeans or applying to college, everyday decisions, big and small, have becom...
About the book: Governance, Consumers and Citizens is the first book to bring together a study of go...
Professor Kent Greenfield, Boston College Law School, delivers an Osgoode Guest Seminar on October 2...
In The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits, Professor Greenfield surveys th...
Professor Kent Greenfield’s newest release, The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World o...
The question of choice is central to the political and economic construction of the role of consumer...
Individuals seek and value choice freedom, firms provide consumers ever-increasing opportunities to ...
But docs choice as constructed in contemporary theory and policy truly provide such a comprehensive ...
One of the iconic issues in American law and politics is the question of free will—sometimes known a...
Most of us take it for granted that we are free agents: that we can sometimes act so as to shape our...
Choice is what enables each person to pursue precisely those objects and activities that best satisf...
Whether we\u27re buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier...
Contemporary egalitarianism has been defined by its attempt to render the distribution o...
The past four decades of research in the social sciences have shed light on two important phenomena....
The twenty-first century is often perceived as the century of personal freedom. Unlike the economic ...
Whether buying a pair of jeans or applying to college, everyday decisions, big and small, have becom...
About the book: Governance, Consumers and Citizens is the first book to bring together a study of go...
Professor Kent Greenfield, Boston College Law School, delivers an Osgoode Guest Seminar on October 2...
In The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits, Professor Greenfield surveys th...
Professor Kent Greenfield’s newest release, The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World o...
The question of choice is central to the political and economic construction of the role of consumer...
Individuals seek and value choice freedom, firms provide consumers ever-increasing opportunities to ...
But docs choice as constructed in contemporary theory and policy truly provide such a comprehensive ...
One of the iconic issues in American law and politics is the question of free will—sometimes known a...
Most of us take it for granted that we are free agents: that we can sometimes act so as to shape our...
Choice is what enables each person to pursue precisely those objects and activities that best satisf...
Whether we\u27re buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier...
Contemporary egalitarianism has been defined by its attempt to render the distribution o...
The past four decades of research in the social sciences have shed light on two important phenomena....
The twenty-first century is often perceived as the century of personal freedom. Unlike the economic ...
Whether buying a pair of jeans or applying to college, everyday decisions, big and small, have becom...
About the book: Governance, Consumers and Citizens is the first book to bring together a study of go...