The Economization of Life

M. Murphy

Duke University Press, 2017

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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.

ISBN-13
9780822363453
ISBN-10
0822363453
Publisher
Duke University Press
Year
2017
Publication date
2017-05-12
Pages
232
Dimensions
154x230x13
Weight
350