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Works like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life - SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature Robert O. McDonald
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Works like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life - SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
Robert O. McDonald
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.
| Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
| Lançado | 2 de fevereiro de 2024 |
| ISBN13 | 9781438494081 |
| Editoras | State University of New York Press |
| Páginas | 308 |
| Dimensões | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 417 g |
| Idioma | Inglês |
