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
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 live more prosperously. Resituating the history of
postcolonial neoliberal technique in expert circuits between the
United States and Bangladesh, Murphy traces the methods and
imaginaries through which family planning calculated lives not
worth living, lives not worth saving, and lives not worth being
born. The resulting archive of thick data transmuted into
financialized "Invest in a Girl" campaigns that reframed survival
as a question of human capital. The book challenges readers to
reject the economy as our collective container and to refuse
population as a term of reproductive justice.
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