POLITICS OF EUGENICS: PRODUCTIONISM, John Glad 200
POPULATION, AND NATIONAL WELFARE
BY: ALBERTO SPEKTOROWSKI AND
LIZA IRENI-SABAN
VVVVVIn more ways than one, Alberto Spektorowski and Liza Ireni-Saban's book, Politics of Eugenics, is a remarkable, bellwether text to have come to us from Israeli scholars. (Spektorowski is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Tel Aviv University, and Saban is an Assistant Professor in the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy in Herzliya.) It is devoted largely to the biological interface of political science and economics. Although eugenics has been much discussed by political scientists, it has been largely avoided for over three decades by mainstream economists (except occasionally under the code phrase ‘human capital”), who studiously pretend notto notice the enormous, undeniable role played in economic processes by genetic diversity, or, for that matter, to speculate as to their past and/or future consequences for economic development.
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