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

Agostino, Fred

 
9781138710788: Incommensurability and Commensuration: The Common Denominator (Routledge Revivals)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1138710784 ISBN 13: 9781138710788
Publisher: Routledge, 2018

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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Agostino, Fred

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138710784
ISBN 13 
9781138710788
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
224