Autre Publication Scientifique Documents de travail du Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne Année : 2025

Commitment, Kantian Economics and Climate Change: Rethinking Rational Choice and Individual Responsibility

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Individual actions -and individual responsibility -in regard to climate-related issues are often overlooked because they have a negligible impact at the global scale. Yet, despite having little to no impact, some people commit themselves to reducing their carbon footprint; that is, they are willingly choosing to adapt their consumption despite having no tangible impact on the issue they are tackling. Our aim is to question the permeability of economic rationality with moral (individual) responsibility at stake in climate-related issues. We provide an account of a possible bridge between deontological obligations and utility-maximisation in three different frameworks, namely Senian commitment, Kantian economics and choice under unresolved valuations conflicts. This analysis of different frameworks incorporating deontological motives in Rational Choice Theory analytically grounds individual commitments without relying on political enforcements or monetary incentives.

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halshs-04974741 , version 1 (03-03-2025)

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Mathieu Guigourez. Commitment, Kantian Economics and Climate Change: Rethinking Rational Choice and Individual Responsibility. 2025. ⟨halshs-04974741⟩
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