The myth of choice
Subtitle: personal responsibility in a world of limits
By: Kent Greenfield
Publisher: Biteback Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781849543071
Subjects: Choice (Psychology); Responsibility; Free will and determinism
Description: An account of the constraints on personal choice, and the consequences of those constraints for everyday life. Greenfield poses unsettling questions about the choices we make, tapping into scholarship on topics from brain science to economics and sociology. His discoveries confirm that many factors limit our free will.
Notes: Originally published in the United States: Yale University Press, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I:; title: The Centrality of choice --; title: Choices, choices, choices --; title: In love with choice -- -- Part II:; title: Limits and influences --; title: The centrality of choice --; title: Our choices, our brains --; title: Choice and culture --; title: Choice and power --; title: Choice and the free market -- -- Part III:; title: What to do --; title: The problem with personal responsibility --; title: Umpires, judges, and bad choices --; title: Building choice in a world of limits.