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Author Murphy, Michelle (Claudette Michelle), author.

Title The economization of life / Michelle Murphy
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Phantasmagrams of population and economy -- Reproducing infrastructures -- Investable life -- Distributed reproduction
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Family planning -- Economic aspects
Family policy -- Economic aspects
Fertility, Human -- Political aspects
Fertility, Human -- Social aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Family policy -- Economic aspects
Fertility, Human -- Political aspects
Fertility, Human -- Social aspects
Population policy
SUBJECT United States -- Population policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140484
Bangladesh -- Population policy
Subject Bangladesh
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016051071
ISBN 9780822373216
0822373211