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A Question of Worth: Economy, Society and the Quantification of Human Value
Christopher Steed
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Description for A Question of Worth: Economy, Society and the Quantification of Human Value
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
We live in a world that has become a resource, a world conditioned by the progressive domination of a monetary scale applied across the board. Our value and worth are contingent upon what we earn, on what we own. Amidst the increasing financialisation that characterises much of the globe, the prevailing ethos is that the only values we can usefully measure are those that can be quantified and expressed in terms of economics. Yet economic value and the value of the human are closely connected: erode the economic and you erode the personal. In the global economic crash of ... Read more
We live in a world that has become a resource, a world conditioned by the progressive domination of a monetary scale applied across the board. Our value and worth are contingent upon what we earn, on what we own. Amidst the increasing financialisation that characterises much of the globe, the prevailing ethos is that the only values we can usefully measure are those that can be quantified and expressed in terms of economics. Yet economic value and the value of the human are closely connected: erode the economic and you erode the personal. In the global economic crash of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784535919
SKU
V9781784535919
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99-5
About Christopher Steed
Christopher Steed is a Research Fellow at Southampton University. He spent twelve years in Whitehall, where he worked on trade policy towards South Africa during the Thatcher years and deindustrialisation. He has twenty years experience as a parish priest and currently works for the Diocese of Winchester, is a qualified psychotherapist and counsellor and holds doctorates in sociology and education ... Read more
Reviews for A Question of Worth: Economy, Society and the Quantification of Human Value
'Christopher Steed has written a deeply thoughtful and challenging book. It is a timely contribution to a debate many more of us should be having.' Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA , former Chief Adviser on Strategy to Prime Minister Tony Blair