The Economization of Life by Michelle Murphy

The Economization of Life

Michelle Murphy

232 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction business economics politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, Michelle Murphy provocatively describes the twentieth-century rise of infr...

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