Works Like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life - Brossura

Mcdonald, Robert O.

 
9781438494081: Works Like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life
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ISBN 10: 1438494084 ISBN 13: 9781438494081
Casa editrice: State Univ of New York Pr, 2024

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Works like a Charm addresses a simple question: Why are “incentives” everywhere now? From inducements to work harder at our jobs to tax rebates for corporations, “incentive” names a general theory of motivation—according to economists, we are incentive-driven creatures. Yet far from being a neutral generalization, this understanding of human behavior smuggles in a quintessentially economic way of seeing the world. Works like a Charm applies Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic concept of retroactive causality to explain the metastasis of the language and logic of incentives: To discover an incentive is to place in the untouchable past an economic cause for a contextual, historical force. Tracing “incentive” from its roots in antiquity to its uptake by neoclassical and then Chicago-school economists, Robert O. McDonald diagnoses the spread of incentives across the social, cultural, and political field and warns readers of the dangers of handing over causality to the economists.

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Editore
State Univ of New York Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2024
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1438494084
ISBN 13 
9781438494081
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
308
Contatto del produttore
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ISBN 10:  1438494092 ISBN 13:  9781438494098
Casa editrice: State Univ of New York Pr, 2023
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