William H. Draper
A rich analysis that will help us forge ahead in creating more economic dynamism, more effective social policies, and an expansion of everyone's freedom and opportunities.
— William H. Draper, III, former administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
Philip Goodchild
In this careful emancipation of Deleuze's work from the prism of Badiou's gaze, Crockett develops a coherent and original reading of Deleuze focusing on time and energetics. Beyond the perceived political failures of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, he restores the liberative potential of Deleuze's thought.
Amartya Sen
We get in this report not only an evaluation of what the limitations of human development are in the United States, but also how the relative place of America has been slipping in comparison with other countries over recent years. In the skilled hands of Sarah Burd-Sharps, Kristen Lewis, and Eduardo Borges Martins, the contrasts within the country—related to region, race, class, and other important distinctions—receive powerful investigation and exposure. In these growing gaps we can also see one of the most important aspects of the souring of the American Dream, which is so much under discussion today. I do not doubt that The Measure of America will receive the huge attention that it richly deserves.
Ward Blanton
Remarkably illuminating. That Crockett is able to make so crystal clear some of Deleuze's contested concepts is the result of years of patient labor over the philosopher's writings.
Kenneth Surin
The best examination so far of the vexed philosophical relationship between Badiou and Deleuze. Crockett constructs a philosophical framework that enables us to envisage the detailed and ramified terms of an engagement between two very powerful thinkers, and in so doing provides us with an indispensable text.
Pamela B. Walters
This report shows that the quality of life issues we typically associate with the grossly inadequate social welfare programs of under-resourced countries are problems experienced by a shockingly large portion of the American population-perhaps a growing proportion.
— Pamela B. Walters, Rudy Professor of Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington
Mike Grimshaw
This is an interdisciplinary text of rare ability and power that takes the reader into not only a deeply considered discussion of two crucial thinkers but also carefully and skillfully explains the limits and possibilities in discussion.
