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Incommensurability and Commensuration: The Common Denominator (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Agostino, Fred

 
9781138710757: Incommensurability and Commensuration: The Common Denominator (Routledge Revivals)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 113871075X ISBN 13: 9781138710757
Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This book was published in 2003.This volume presents a detailed examination of incommensurability in the value-theoretical sense. Exploring how choosers deal with problems and constraints of choice, the author draws on work in cognitive psychology, in sociology, in jurisprudence, in economics, and in the theory of value to show how choosers learn to make "trade-offs" when there is potential incommensurability among the options they are considering. The analysis is also informed by recent work in the tradition of Michel Foucault. With so many modern devices and ideals of government dependent on the comparability of options, this book is timely and can inform public debate about de-regulation, user-pays, accountability, and the substitution of market mechanisms for government regulation and supply.

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Fred D'Agostino

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
113871075X
ISBN 13 
9781138710757
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
224