The Business of Liberty: Freedom and Information in Ethics, Politics, and Law

Author:   Boudewijn de Bruin (Professor, Professor, University of Groningen)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198839675


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   19 February 2022
Format:   Hardback
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What makes political freedom valuable to us? Two well-known arguments are that freedom contributes to our desire satisfaction and to our personal responsibility. Here, Boudewijn de Bruin argues that freedom is valuable when it is accompanied by knowledge. He offers an original and systematic account of the relationship between freedom and knowledge and defends two original normative ideals of known freedom and acknowledged freedom. By combining psychological perspectives on choice and philosophical views on the value of knowledge, he shows how known freedom is crucial to satisfy our desires and assume responsibility. Known freedom is compromised when salespeople deploy consumer-obfuscation, or when news outlets use contextual framing techniques to steer the way their audiences process information. Conversely, carefully developed consumer protection and information disclosure regulation can foster known freedom. Acknowledged freedom, from ethical and economic perspectives, offers protection and makes our freedoms more stable. It embodies an ideal of mutual recognition that underlies informed consent and the ethics of communication, and can also contribute to a flourishing corporate culture. This book integrates and extends cutting-edge research from philosophy, economics, psychology, and law to reorient debates on privacy, neuromarketing, sustainable finance, corporate culture, consumer protection, media violence, and freedom of speech.

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Author:   Boudewijn de Bruin (Professor, Professor, University of Groningen)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.436kg
ISBN:  

9780198839675


ISBN 10:   0198839677
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   19 February 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Boudewijn de Bruin is professor at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He studied mathematics and philosophy and obtained his PhD from the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. He has held visiting positions at Harvard Business School and the University of Cambridge, where he is Life Member of Clare Hall. He is the recipient of various grants from the Dutch Research Council, and is the author of Ethics and the Global Financial Crisis: Why Incompetence is Worse than Greed (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

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