McDonald Works like a Charm

Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9410-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature

Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of “incentives” in public life from a Lacanian perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDonald, Robert O.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Metastatic Logic of the Incentive

1. Incentives, Retroactive Causality, and the Rhetorical Unconscious

2. This Is Not a Pipe, or Incentives from Antiquity to Modernity

3. Gary Becker, the Godfather of Incentives

4. “What Does Woman Want?” Equal Pay and “Women’s Incentives”

5. Nudge Theory and the Politics of Neurosis

6. Nudging Ourselves to Death

Conclusion: Breaking the Spell
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert O. McDonald is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas.