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Melinda Cooper

    Melinda Cooper explore l'interaction complexe entre la biotechnologie et le capitalisme à l'ère néolibérale. Ses travaux examinent de manière critique comment les avancées scientifiques et les structures économiques façonnent la société contemporaine. Elle explore les implications profondes pour notre compréhension de l'existence et de la valeur humaines. Le travail de Cooper offre une perspective pointue et analytique sur ces questions complexes.

    Counterrevolution
    Life as Surplus
    The Asset Economy
    Family Values
    • Family Values

      • 448pages
      • 16 heures de lecture
      4,5(212)Évaluer

      An investigation of the roots of the alliance between free-market neoliberals and social conservatives.

      Family Values
    • The Asset Economy

      • 176pages
      • 7 heures de lecture
      5,0(2)Évaluer

      This book examines rising inequality in Anglo-capitalist societies, attributing it to the emergence of an asset economy where asset ownership surpasses employment in determining class status. It explores generational impacts, wealth disparities, urban property inflation, and the disconnect between public expectations and policy priorities.

      The Asset Economy
    • Life as Surplus

      • 222pages
      • 8 heures de lecture
      3,9(64)Évaluer

      Focusing on the period from 1970s onwards, this is a study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States. It demonstrates that the history of biotechnology cannot be understood without taking into account the simultaneous rise of neo-liberalism as a political force and an economic policy.

      Life as Surplus
    • "This book seeks to explain the combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policy in our times"--

      Counterrevolution