Thus, individuals make free, uncoerced decisions within the markets, based on information generally available.
Nevertheless, it has dredged up a painful history of medical mistreatment and incited debate among prison rights advocates and researchers about whether prisoners can truly make uncoerced decisions, given the environment they live in.
"The court is convinced that after a vigorous proxy fight, the shareholders of Wachovia can make an uncoerced, fully informed decision about whether or not they wish to approve the merger with First Union," Judge Tennille wrote.
An autonomous person would, according to this conception, be a substantively cognitively competent and uncoerced individual who arrives at his or her decisions after having been offered relevant information about the decision at hand.
184 That consent is subject to three conditions: first, it must be uncoerced; second, it must result from the decision-making capacity of a cognitively competent individual; and third, it must be informed.
Delaware law has established that vote of "a majority of informed, uncoerced, and disinterested stockholders" in favor of "a specific decision of the board of directors" will usually be sufficient to cause such decision to be evaluated under the business judgment rule.
In 2014, in KKR Financial,16 the Delaware Court of Chancery reasoned that in transactions not involving a controlling stockholder, the business judgment rule presumption should apply if the board's decision is approved by a fully informed, uncoerced vote of a majority of disinterested stockholders, even if a majority of the directors approving the transaction are not independent or disinterested.
Autonomous decision makers are distinguished by their ability to make decisions that are informed, intentional or deliberate, and uncoerced (Beauchamp and Childress 2001, 59; Faden and Beauchamp 1986).
It is voluntary and uncoerced.
According to them, an action is free if it is voluntary and uncoerced, and an action can be voluntary and uncoerced even though it is causally determined.
The New Museum also palpably credits viewers with a will and a right to uncoerced experience.
