Description: Further DetailsTitle: Works like a CharmCondition: NewFormat: HardbackSubtitle: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday LifeISBN-10: 1438494092EAN: 9781438494098ISBN: 9781438494098Publisher: State University of New York PressRelease Date: 08/01/2023Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 227gAuthor: Robert O. McDonaldGenre: Language & ReferenceTopic: Society & CultureBook Series: SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, LiteratureType: Schools of ThoughtDescription: 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.Release Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Works like a Charm
Title: Works like a Charm
Subtitle: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life
ISBN-10: 1438494092
EAN: 9781438494098
ISBN: 9781438494098
Release Date: 08/01/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Language & Reference
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 308 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Works like a Charm : Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life
Publisher: STATE University of New York Press
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Movements / Psychoanalysis, Communication Studies, Rhetoric, Economics / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, Business & Economics, Psychology
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Robert O. McDonald, McDonald
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Suny Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature Ser.
Format: Hardcover
