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The systematic elaboration of efficiency privilege as a framework for understanding the politics of evaluation. The Theory of Efficiency Privilege argues that efficiency is never neutral—that certain definitions are privileged, others marginalized, and that this privilege reflects social power, not technical superiority. It traces how corporate efficiency became dominant, how it was used to justify exploitation and extraction, how alternative efficiencies (ecological, social, humane) were suppressed. It doesn't claim that privileged efficiency is always wrong; it claims that its privilege should be examined, its partiality acknowledged, its dominance questioned.
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