TY - BOOK
T1 - Incommensurability and Commensuration
T2 - The Common Denominator
AU - D'Agostino, Fred
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - This book presents the first 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.
AB - This book presents the first 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.
KW - Social Philosophy
UR - http://books.google.com/books?id=Pwz-MojYeVkC
M3 - Book
SN - 0754631494
T3 - Ashgate New Critical Thinking In Philosophy
BT - Incommensurability and Commensuration
PB - Ashgate Publishing
CY - Aldershot, United Kingdom
ER -