Works Like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life
Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of "incentives" in public life from a Lacanian perspective
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| Summary: | Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of "incentives" in public life from a Lacanian perspective |
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| 505 | 8 | |a Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Metastatic Logic of the Incentive -- What Is an Incentive? -- The Imperial Ambitions of Economics -- Why Psychoanalysis? -- Plan for the Work -- Chapter 1 Incentives, Retroactive Causality, and the Rhetorical Unconscious -- Retroaction, Cause, and Metastasis in Psychoanalytic Thought -- Retroactive Causality as Political Attribution -- Conclusion: Hiding the Ball in Plain Sight -- Chapter 2 This Is Not a Pipe, or Incentives from Antiquity to Modernity -- From Incentivum to Incentive -- The Objet a in Plato's Symposium -- The Incentive, from Signifier to Sign -- The Incentive, from Object to Objective -- Conclusion: Incentives in the Water Now -- Chapter 3 Gary Becker, the Godfather of Incentives -- Gary Becker's "Economic Approach to Human Behavior" -- The Centrality of the Incentive -- Incentives as Hidden Rationality -- Conclusion: Becker's Rhetorical Challenges -- Chapter 4 "What Does Woman Want?" Equal Pay and "Women's Incentives" -- The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act of 2009 -- Paycheck Fairness Act -- Closing the "Factor other than Sex" Loophole via Verbal Negation -- "Women's Incentives" Fill the Gender Pay Gap . . . -- ... and Reveal the Real -- Conclusion: What Does Woman Want? -- Chapter 5 Nudge Theory and the Politics of Neurosis -- Libertarian Paternalism, Choice Architecture, and the Nudge -- Nudges as Political Neurosis -- Conclusion: The Return of the Repressed -- Chapter 6 Nudging Ourselves to Death -- Deprivation as Incentive: Ending Supplemental Unemployment Benefits -- Incentives in American Statecraft -- Vaccination Incentives, Nudges, and the Decline of Symbolic Efficiency -- Conclusion: Failure through Success -- Conclusion: Breaking the Spell -- Resisting the Charm -- Five Dialectical Postulates of Incentive Rhetoric | |
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| spelling | McDonald, Robert O. Verfasser aut Works Like a Charm Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life 1st ed Albany State University of New York Press 2023 ©2023 1 Online-Ressource (309 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier SUNY Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature Series Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Metastatic Logic of the Incentive -- What Is an Incentive? -- The Imperial Ambitions of Economics -- Why Psychoanalysis? -- Plan for the Work -- Chapter 1 Incentives, Retroactive Causality, and the Rhetorical Unconscious -- Retroaction, Cause, and Metastasis in Psychoanalytic Thought -- Retroactive Causality as Political Attribution -- Conclusion: Hiding the Ball in Plain Sight -- Chapter 2 This Is Not a Pipe, or Incentives from Antiquity to Modernity -- From Incentivum to Incentive -- The Objet a in Plato's Symposium -- The Incentive, from Signifier to Sign -- The Incentive, from Object to Objective -- Conclusion: Incentives in the Water Now -- Chapter 3 Gary Becker, the Godfather of Incentives -- Gary Becker's "Economic Approach to Human Behavior" -- The Centrality of the Incentive -- Incentives as Hidden Rationality -- Conclusion: Becker's Rhetorical Challenges -- Chapter 4 "What Does Woman Want?" Equal Pay and "Women's Incentives" -- The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act of 2009 -- Paycheck Fairness Act -- Closing the "Factor other than Sex" Loophole via Verbal Negation -- "Women's Incentives" Fill the Gender Pay Gap . . . -- ... and Reveal the Real -- Conclusion: What Does Woman Want? -- Chapter 5 Nudge Theory and the Politics of Neurosis -- Libertarian Paternalism, Choice Architecture, and the Nudge -- Nudges as Political Neurosis -- Conclusion: The Return of the Repressed -- Chapter 6 Nudging Ourselves to Death -- Deprivation as Incentive: Ending Supplemental Unemployment Benefits -- Incentives in American Statecraft -- Vaccination Incentives, Nudges, and the Decline of Symbolic Efficiency -- Conclusion: Failure through Success -- Conclusion: Breaking the Spell -- Resisting the Charm -- Five Dialectical Postulates of Incentive Rhetoric 1. Incentives treat individuals as utility maximizers. Replace utility with jouissance. -- 2. An incentive individualizes outcomes. Foreground the social existence of the individual. -- 3. An incentive presumes a dyadic relation. Find the unspoken addressee. -- 4. An incentive is downward-facing. Look upward. -- 5. All incentives function retroactively. Refuse the teleological binding. -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of "incentives" in public life from a Lacanian perspective Rhetoric Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe McDonald, Robert O. Works Like a Charm Albany : State University of New York Press,c2023 9781438494081 |
| spellingShingle | McDonald, Robert O. Works Like a Charm Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Metastatic Logic of the Incentive -- What Is an Incentive? -- The Imperial Ambitions of Economics -- Why Psychoanalysis? -- Plan for the Work -- Chapter 1 Incentives, Retroactive Causality, and the Rhetorical Unconscious -- Retroaction, Cause, and Metastasis in Psychoanalytic Thought -- Retroactive Causality as Political Attribution -- Conclusion: Hiding the Ball in Plain Sight -- Chapter 2 This Is Not a Pipe, or Incentives from Antiquity to Modernity -- From Incentivum to Incentive -- The Objet a in Plato's Symposium -- The Incentive, from Signifier to Sign -- The Incentive, from Object to Objective -- Conclusion: Incentives in the Water Now -- Chapter 3 Gary Becker, the Godfather of Incentives -- Gary Becker's "Economic Approach to Human Behavior" -- The Centrality of the Incentive -- Incentives as Hidden Rationality -- Conclusion: Becker's Rhetorical Challenges -- Chapter 4 "What Does Woman Want?" Equal Pay and "Women's Incentives" -- The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act of 2009 -- Paycheck Fairness Act -- Closing the "Factor other than Sex" Loophole via Verbal Negation -- "Women's Incentives" Fill the Gender Pay Gap . . . -- ... and Reveal the Real -- Conclusion: What Does Woman Want? -- Chapter 5 Nudge Theory and the Politics of Neurosis -- Libertarian Paternalism, Choice Architecture, and the Nudge -- Nudges as Political Neurosis -- Conclusion: The Return of the Repressed -- Chapter 6 Nudging Ourselves to Death -- Deprivation as Incentive: Ending Supplemental Unemployment Benefits -- Incentives in American Statecraft -- Vaccination Incentives, Nudges, and the Decline of Symbolic Efficiency -- Conclusion: Failure through Success -- Conclusion: Breaking the Spell -- Resisting the Charm -- Five Dialectical Postulates of Incentive Rhetoric 1. Incentives treat individuals as utility maximizers. Replace utility with jouissance. -- 2. An incentive individualizes outcomes. Foreground the social existence of the individual. -- 3. An incentive presumes a dyadic relation. Find the unspoken addressee. -- 4. An incentive is downward-facing. Look upward. -- 5. All incentives function retroactively. Refuse the teleological binding. -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index Rhetoric |
| title | Works Like a Charm Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life |
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