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Payment by the act, a variation of economic rationality
[Tarification à l'activité, variation autour de la rationalité économique]

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  • Olivier Cousin

    (CED - Centre Émile Durkheim - IEP Bordeaux - Sciences Po Bordeaux - Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux - UB - Université de Bordeaux - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

Payment by the act imposes an economic rationality on hospital doctors that they spontaneously perceive as invasive and all-powerful. The economy is first apprehended as a foreign body, distorting work and the representations that actors make of it. However, it can take other meanings and other aspects when it is understood as a constitutive element of work, just as is the respect for norms, of the framework setting ethical guidelines, or the technical know-how acquired throughout doctors' training. By thus understanding the economy, through payment by the act, as a variable entering into the composition of work, it is then possible to grasp the place it occupies in the accomplishment of activities, how the actors manage to neutralize it, and on what condition it acquires legitimacy.

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  • Olivier Cousin, 2018. "Payment by the act, a variation of economic rationality [Tarification à l'activité, variation autour de la rationalité économique]," Post-Print halshs-01893174, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01893174
    DOI: 10.3917/rfas.182.0111
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