Human capital theory logically extends to genetic self-investment

Evidence

D) “The malleability of the self presumed by the theory of human capital investment will extend down to the most basic corporeal level, which will eventually mean investment in genetic manipulation.” — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 271

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader interest in biocapital, CRISPR/fox-2 regulatory debates, and ‘enhancement’ bioethics. — connects to: Innovation is redefined as the income of invested human capital — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1206; Technological possibility alone will drive genetic self-modification absent moral restraint; Human capital theory originated with a neo-Keynesian, not Chicago neoliberals — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 248 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Contemporary homo oeconomicus has become financialized human capital #expands (0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 52
• Millennials internalized themselves as human capital to be optimized #expands (0.75) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 308
• Innovation is redefined as the income of invested human capital #expands (0.72) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1206
• Technological possibility alone will drive genetic self-modification absent moral restraint #expands (0.72)
• Human capital theory originated with a neo-Keynesian, not Chicago neoliberals #qualifies (0.70) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 248