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Works like a Charm
- Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life
Engelsk Paperback

Works like a Charm

- Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life
Engelsk Paperback

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Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of "incentives" in public life from a Lacanian perspective.

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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
308
ISBN-13:
9781438494081
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1438494084
Udg. Dato:
2 feb 2024
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
2 feb 2024
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