The Economization of Life

by Michelle Murphy and Michelle Murphy

Book Overview

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, M. Murphy provocatively describes the twentieth-century rise of infrastructures of calculation and experiment aimed at governing population for the sake of national economy, pinpointing the spread of a potent biopolitical logic: some must not be born so that others might...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822363453
• ISBN13: 9780822363453
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"