Freeing Up Time

Goodin, Robert

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Freeing Up Time

Date

2017

Authors

Goodin, Robert

Publisher

Pompeu Fabra University

Abstract

Increasing people's control over how they spend their time is a worthy ambition. But there is only so much we will be able to do in that regard. It is important to conceptualize discretionary time in a measurable way in order to appreciate both the potential and the limits of standard policies designed to do that.