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Esta tese faz uma genealogia da concepção de homem econômico emocional, tal como ele aparece no discurso do management americano a partir dos anos de 1990. Para tanto, fez-se uma história de longa duração com a finalidade de compreender como esse sujeito de interesse que estava associado à temática das paixões nos séculos XVII e XVIII pôde se vincular à temática das emoções, surgida apenas no século XIX, advinda da psicologia física e da biologia evolucionista. Para realizar essa história, a tese foi dividida em duas partes. Na primeira, foi abordada a emergência do homo oeconomicus clássico no âmbito da governamentalidade liberal britânica dos séculos XVII e XVIII e foram diferenciadas as três formas de problematização e governo da vida emocional do sujeito de interesse: as paixões, no âmbito da vertente utilitarista-radical do liberalismo, os sentimentos morais, no âmbito da reação do conservadorismo, e as emoções, no âmbito da psicologia física e do evolucionismo. Cada uma dessas três temáticas surgiu ainda no discurso antropológico do sujeito de interesse, mas se desenvolveu em sentidos diferentes: as paixões resultaram no homo oeconomicus, os sentimentos morais, no homo socialis e as emoções, no homo psychologicus. Na segunda parte da tese, demonstra-se como essas três temáticas adentraram as ciências da administração americanas no século XX, caracterizando o controle emocional sobre o trabalho e o consumo. Ainda no discurso do management, essas temáticas se transformaram, em virtude da reação às contestações antidisciplinares da contracultura, dando origem a uma nova concepção de emoções que reúne características das três temáticas anteriores. O discurso do management e, posteriormente, o da teoria econômica neoliberal vinculou essa nova temática das emoções à noção de homem econômico, caracterizado agora pela ideia de capital humano. Constituiu-se, assim, o homem econômico emocional, formando uma distinta concepção antropológica e uma inédita coerência dos dispositivos de poder emocional. / This thesis makes a genealogy of the \"emotional economic man\", as it emerged in the U.S. management discourse since the 1990s. To do that, it has been drawn a history of how to understand this \"subject of interest\" associated to the theme of passions in the XVII and XVIII centuries. Such theme has been linked to the theme of emotions that was only originated in the XIX century related to the biological psychology and evolutionary biology. To carry out this history, this thesis has been divided in two parts. At the first part, the emergence of homo economicus in the classical liberal governmentality of British seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was discussed, and three forms of government and questioning of his \"emotional\" life were distinguished: the passions, under the utilitarian aspect of the radical liberalism; the moral sentiments, in the backlash of conservatism; and the emotions in the psychological and biological evolutionism. Each of these three themes arose in the anthropological discourse of the subject of interest, but were developed in different directions: the passions resulted in the homo economicus, the moral sentiments in the homo socialis, and the emotions in the homo psychologicus. In the second part of the thesis, it is shown how these three themes were inserted into the American administration science discourse in the twentieth century, characterizing emotional control over workers and consumers. Still in the discourse of management, these issues were transformed due to the reaction against antidisciplinaries countercultural contestations, giving rise to a new conception of emotions that includes characteristics of the three themes featured above. This new theme of emotions will be bound by the discourse of management and subsequently by the discourse of economic theory regarding the economic man, which is now characterized by the idea of human capital. The emotional economic man is thereby constituted, forming a new anthropological concept and a new device of emotional power.

Background: The background explains different financial crises and the effect those crises had on the Swedish acquits regarding variable compensation. The resent discussion regarding variable compensation and the main problems with bonuses is also explained. Our theories for this essay is mainly based on the new directions from Finansinspektionen FFFS 2009:6,7 and stakeholder theory. Other theories used are agency theory, stewardship theory and economic man.Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to analyze the new directions for variable compensation and to investigate if these new directions can lead to a more long-term thinking for managers in banks. Method:We used semi-structured interviews with open questions for our survey. During the survey we conducted three personal interviews and one mail interview, respondents represented the stakeholder groups: stakeholder, stakewatcher and stakekeeper. Conclusion: During our survey we found that the directions from Finansinspektionen are still on an early stage and it has been hard to analyze their effects. But it has been shown that the banks experience some difficulty in identifying their risk takers. In our investigation we have found that the new directions can be a step towards a more long-term thinking but it requires the management to change the point of view regarding bonuses.

In 1719, Daniel Defoe wrote his first fiction The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe without knowing that the protagonist of the novel, Robinson Crusoe, would be liberated from his cultural matrix and deployed as a dominant economic metaphor with the advent of the so-called marginalist revolution in the second half of the nineteenth century. This thesis intends to: i) with reference to an habits of thought approach, unearth the institutional nature of the metamorphosis of Crusoe from a figure of the literary realm to the economic man of neoclassical economics, and ii) based on a rereading of Defoe&rsquo / s original text, offer an alternative reinterpretation which would turn upside down the prevalent presuppositions of neoclassical economics portraying an isolated, universal and axiomatically rational Crusoe. Accordingly, in this study, Crusoe is presented as a specific time- and space-bound human being preserving and perpetuating his institutionally forged character traits even during his sojourn on the &lsquo / institution-free&rsquo / uninhabited island / a methodological and expeditious man, whose rationality was based not on the fulfillment of axioms but on reasoning / and an entrepreneur aiming at economic development through innovation.

Increased possibilitiesof choosing one’s school of preference hasbeen raised as a key factor in many countries to promote equal opportunitiesand higher quality of education. This has been endorsed by policymakers whoassume that students make well-informed rational choices and that students only stress academic quality whendeciding which school to attend. If this is true, it will benefit schools ofhigh academic quality, rendering improved school quality overall. To date,little research has examined the validity of these assumptions despite theprofound effects they have had for changing the school systems in manycountries. This study employs an experimental approach to investigate therelative importance of attributes in school choice. Specifically the study isbased on experimental data from 587 prospective high school students inHalmstad, Sweden. The purpose is to contrast the principal school qualityattributes behind the policy change (academic reputation and programfeasibility), with the presence of friends and geographical attributes such asdistance, location and accessibility, while controlling for individualcharacteristics. The results are disturbing as they reveal flaws in theassumptions that motivated the school choice policy reform. The study presents evidence of differencesin preferences and that grades are the most important background characteristic for this difference. The study also shows that all studentsare not rational to the same extent as theory predicts. Hence theSwedish school reforms have been based on a slightly biased theory. Finally, the study indicates that differentgeographic contexts (e.g. where the studentslive) affect students' preferences.

Diss. Uppsala : Uppsala universitet, 2005.

Esta tese faz uma genealogia da concepção de homem econômico emocional, tal como ele aparece no discurso do management americano a partir dos anos de 1990. Para tanto, fez-se uma história de longa duração com a finalidade de compreender como esse sujeito de interesse que estava associado à temática das paixões nos séculos XVII e XVIII pôde se vincular à temática das emoções, surgida apenas no século XIX, advinda da psicologia física e da biologia evolucionista. Para realizar essa história, a tese foi dividida em duas partes. Na primeira, foi abordada a emergência do homo oeconomicus clássico no âmbito da governamentalidade liberal britânica dos séculos XVII e XVIII e foram diferenciadas as três formas de problematização e governo da vida emocional do sujeito de interesse: as paixões, no âmbito da vertente utilitarista-radical do liberalismo, os sentimentos morais, no âmbito da reação do conservadorismo, e as emoções, no âmbito da psicologia física e do evolucionismo. Cada uma dessas três temáticas surgiu ainda no discurso antropológico do sujeito de interesse, mas se desenvolveu em sentidos diferentes: as paixões resultaram no homo oeconomicus, os sentimentos morais, no homo socialis e as emoções, no homo psychologicus. Na segunda parte da tese, demonstra-se como essas três temáticas adentraram as ciências da administração americanas no século XX, caracterizando o controle emocional sobre o trabalho e o consumo. Ainda no discurso do management, essas temáticas se transformaram, em virtude da reação às contestações antidisciplinares da contracultura, dando origem a uma nova concepção de emoções que reúne características das três temáticas anteriores. O discurso do management e, posteriormente, o da teoria econômica neoliberal vinculou essa nova temática das emoções à noção de homem econômico, caracterizado agora pela ideia de capital humano. Constituiu-se, assim, o homem econômico emocional, formando uma distinta concepção antropológica e uma inédita coerência dos dispositivos de poder emocional. / This thesis makes a genealogy of the \"emotional economic man\", as it emerged in the U.S. management discourse since the 1990s. To do that, it has been drawn a history of how to understand this \"subject of interest\" associated to the theme of passions in the XVII and XVIII centuries. Such theme has been linked to the theme of emotions that was only originated in the XIX century related to the biological psychology and evolutionary biology. To carry out this history, this thesis has been divided in two parts. At the first part, the emergence of homo economicus in the classical liberal governmentality of British seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was discussed, and three forms of government and questioning of his \"emotional\" life were distinguished: the passions, under the utilitarian aspect of the radical liberalism; the moral sentiments, in the backlash of conservatism; and the emotions in the psychological and biological evolutionism. Each of these three themes arose in the anthropological discourse of the subject of interest, but were developed in different directions: the passions resulted in the homo economicus, the moral sentiments in the homo socialis, and the emotions in the homo psychologicus. In the second part of the thesis, it is shown how these three themes were inserted into the American administration science discourse in the twentieth century, characterizing emotional control over workers and consumers. Still in the discourse of management, these issues were transformed due to the reaction against antidisciplinaries countercultural contestations, giving rise to a new conception of emotions that includes characteristics of the three themes featured above. This new theme of emotions will be bound by the discourse of management and subsequently by the discourse of economic theory regarding the economic man, which is now characterized by the idea of human capital. The emotional economic man is thereby constituted, forming a new anthropological concept and a new device of emotional power.