Works Like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life

2024/05/30 by Oren Abeles
Arts and Humanities · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Economic Theory and Institutions #Rhetoric and Communication Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/10572252.2024.2360864

openalex publication_date 2024/05/30 · openalex created_date 2024/05/31 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25

Abstract

Robert O. McDonald’s Works Like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life traces the discourse of economic “incentives” from its conception in neoclassical economics to its...

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