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Vincanne Adams (ed.), Metrics: What Counts in Global Health (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), pp. 258, $24.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-6097-1.

In recent years a head of critical steam has built up around 'metrics'. This is shorthand for the glut of statistical indicators deployed today in global governance, both by established institutions like the United Nations and its special agencies, and by newer public/private partnerships and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Their function is to crystallise in a single number a complex ar...

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Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets Kaushik Sunder Rajan Duke University Press 2012

In the twilight of the 20th century, Jeremy Rifkin’s The Biotech Century (1998) and Richard Oliver’s The Biotech Age (2003) expressed mixed feelings about the prospect of capital expansion through biotechnological innovation. The former was terrified while the latter was excited about this prospect. Twelve years into the 21st century, the question that arises is, what is the actual relationship...

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