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The Economization of Life

By Michelle Murphy

Book information

Publisher
Duke University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780822373216
DOI
10.1515/9780822373216
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8178634 bytes)
Pages
232\226
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 14:35:19

Description

Michelle Murphy examines the ways in which efforts at population control since World War II have tied reproduction to neoliberal capitalism, showing how data collection practices have been used to quantify the value of a human life in terms of its ability to improve the nation-state's gross domestic product.

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