{"product_id":"works-like-a-charm-incentive-rhetoric-and-the-economization-of-everyday-life-paperback","title":"Works like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert O. McDonald\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBreaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of \"incentives\" in public life from a Lacanian perspective.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorks like a Charm\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eincentive-driven\u003c\/i\u003e creatures. Yet far from being a neutral generalization, this understanding of human behavior smuggles in a quintessentially economic way of seeing the world. \u003ci\u003eWorks like a Charm\u003c\/i\u003e applies Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic concept of \u003ci\u003eretroactive causality\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert O. McDonald \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 308\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53483698684211,"sku":"9781438494081","price":66.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/works-like-a-charm-incentive-rhetoric-and-the-economization-of-everyday-life-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}