{"product_id":"9781438494098","title":"Works like a Charm : Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life (Suny series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBreaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of \"incentives\" in public life from a Lacanian perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWorks 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48960974192875,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":190.44,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/zh\/products\/9781438494098","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}