Download This PaperIncommensurability and Valuation in Law
83 Pages Posted: 6 May 2020
Date Written: 1994
Abstract
In this article I explore two claims and discuss their implications for law. The first claim is that human values are plural and diverse. By this I mean that we value things, events, and relationships in ways that are not reducible to some larger and more encompassing value. The second claim is that human goods are not commensurable. By this I mean that such goods are not assessed along a single metric. For reasons to be explored, the two claims, though related, are importantly different.
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Sunstein, Cass R., Incommensurability and Valuation in Law (1994). Michigan Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 4, 1994, Harvard Public Law Working Paper Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3588337 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3588337
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