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标题：Constraining the Choice Set: Lessons from the Software Revolution
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作者：David Levy
期刊名称：Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN：0363-1893
出版年度：1985
卷号：10
出版社：Reason Papers
摘要：T HE EXISTENCE OF MANMADE CONSTRAINTS On the choice set in social processes is too well known to belabor. Constitutions constrain the will of majorities; rights hamper the ability of even supermajorities to effect transactions; common morality attempts to limit our consumption decision. One frequent judgment about some of these constraints is that they are inefficient.' One interpretation of a state of affairs where our theory tells us an activity is inefficient, but the activity persists in spite of our valiant efforts at education, is that we really do not understand the activity. The problem of interpreting a divergence between what our theory entails and what we observe "out there" is a general one in studies of ~ocie