The nature and measurement of freedom |
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Authors: | Patrick Suppes |
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Affiliation: | (1) Stanford University, CSLI Ventura Hall Stanford, 94305-4115, CA, USA |
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Abstract: | This article develops an ergodic theory of freedom and its measurement. The key idea is that freedom and uncertainty are inextricably entwined. Measuretheoretic isomorphism of stationary processes is a natural way of identifying at an abstract level identity of the structure of uncertainty, which can be measured by the entropy rate of a stationary process. Various empirical examples of markets and elections are considered, as well as the Kantian, as opposed to utilitarian, philosophical framework of the general ideas. |
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