COMP CLOSED | Book Giveaway | The Price of Life

The Price of Life
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We are very pleased to be giving away two copies of Jenny Kleeman’s book ‘The Price of Life’, to our GrownUps members.

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About The Price of Life

We say life is priceless, but in these surprising stories that explore the value of human life, journalist, broadcaster and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on an adventure to meet some of the people who decide what we’re worth.

‘Jon Ronson meets Louis Theroux in the style of Joan Didion’ – Telegraph

The cost of saving a life, creating a life or compensating for a life taken is routinely calculated and put into practice. In a world in love with data, it is possible to run a cost-benefit analysis on anything – including life itself. For philanthropists, judges, criminals, healthcare providers and government ministers, it’s just part of the job.

In a series of extraordinary encounters – with people who have faked their own death or lost a loved one to terrorism, with hitmen and with modern day slaves – Kleeman discovers more questions than answers. What does it mean for our humanity when we crunch the numbers to decide who gets the expensive life-saving drugs, and who misses out? What do we learn about ourselves when philanthropic giving by the effective altruists in Silicon Valley is received by some, while others are left to suffer? Are some lives really worth more than others? And what happens when we take human emotions out of the equation? Does it make for a fairer decision-making process – or for moral bankruptcy?

Exploring the final frontier in monetization, Kleeman asks what we lose and what we gain by leaving the judgments that really matter up to cold, hard logic.

Author Information

Jenny Kleeman is a journalist, documentary-maker and radio presenter. She writes for The Guardian, Tortoise, The Times and The Sunday Times. She has reported for BBC One’s Panorama, Channel 4’s Dispatches and VICE News Tonight on HBO, as well as making thirteen films from across the globe for Channel 4’s Unreported World. The Price of Life is her second book.

 

 

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    1. You must be a GrownUps member and receive our newsletter to be eligible to win.
    2. Competition closes on the 9th October 2024, winners will be notified via email by 10th October 2024.
    3. It is your responsibility to ensure you correctly enter a New Zealand postal address where the prize can be sent. GrownUps will not take responsibility for prizes sent to incorrect addresses.
    4. Winners are drawn at random by the GrownUps administration team.
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