Choice: Its Increase and its Value
Author:
- Keith DowdingKDKeith Dowding
- 1 July 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in British Journal of Political Science
- Vol. 22 (3) , 301-314
Abstract
Much has been made in recent years of increasing the choice of the citizen-consumer. This article argues that the concept of ‘increasing choice’ is far more problematic than at first appears and has little intrinsic value in itself. Choice is only to be valued in itself in the sense that the process of choice or decision-making plays a part in our discovery of our own preferences. To justify the introduction of the market process on the grounds of increasing choice is doubly wrong; first, increasing choice is not in itself valuable and, secondly, what is valuable about the market has little to do with choice.Keywords
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