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The Agency Paradox

J.Michelle

You can make consequential decisions for others and still struggle to choose what you want for yourself. Why might demonstrated competence coexist with difficulty exercising personal agency? This paper introduces Nirva's Agency Paradox as a theoretical account of that contradiction.

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