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9780192890559

Pricing Lives The Political Art of Measurement

by Colonomos, Ariel
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    9780192890559

  • ISBN10:

    0192890557

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2023-11-30
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Ariel Colonomos, Research Professor, Sciences Po Paris (CNRS-CERI)

Ariel Colonomos is Research Professor at CNRS and Sciences Po in Paris where he is affiliated with CERI. He has taught in the Political Science department at Columbia, at SIPA, and at Reichman University in Herzliyam and has held numerous visiting positions both in the US and in Israel. His work focuses on international relations and political theory, and his recent works include Moralizing International Relations (Palgrave, 2008), The Gamble of War (Palgrave, 2013), and Selling the Future - The Perils of Predicting Global Politics (Hurst/OUP, 2016), which received the ISA Ethics section book award.

Table of Contents


Introduction: The lives-interests nexus
Part I. Pricing Lives before the State: Some Political Lessons from Shakespeare
1. The many merchants of Venice
2. Henry V: An all-too-human gambler
Part II. The Calculating State: Hobbes's Hidden Pendulum
3. The challenge of measuring the measures: Proportionality
4. The challenge of weighing up the value of hostages
5. The challenge of deciding upon reparations
6. The challenge of pricing pandemics
Part III. Patriarchalism and Philanthropism
7. A political theory of hostage-taking: Patriarchalism
8. A political theory of the victim: Philanthropism
Part IV. Pricing Distant Lives
9. Lest we forget the future: The fallacy of temporal discounting
10. Out of sight, out of mind?
Conclusion: Knowing who we are. Pricing lives and taking responsibility

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