Melinda CooperMelinda Cooper is Associate Professor in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on the broad areas of social studies of finance, biomedical economies, neoliberalism, and new social consrvatisms. She is author of Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era (University of Washington Press, 2008) and Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Zone Books, 2017). She is coeditor, with Martijn Konings, of the Stanford University Press book series Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times. Read More Read Less