Works like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life McDonald Robert O.
Works like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life McDonald Robert O. Works like a Charm addresses a simple question: Why are "incentives" everywhere now? Yet far from…
Specifikacia Works like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life McDonald Robert O.
Works like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life McDonald Robert O.
Works like a Charm addresses a simple question: Why are "incentives" everywhere now? Yet far from being a neutral generalization, this understanding of human behavior smuggles in a quintessentially economic way of seeing the world. 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.
Tracing "incentive" from its roots in antiquity to its uptake by neoclassical and then Chicago-school economists, Robert O. 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. McDonald diagnoses the spread of incentives across the
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