The Pricing of Progress : : Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life / / Eli Cook.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Cook, Eli,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. The Political Arithmetic of Price --; 2. Seeing like a Capitalist --; 3. The Spirit of Non-Capitalism --; 4. The Age of Moral Statistics --; 5. The Hunt for Growth --; 6. The Coronation of King Capital --; 7. State of Statistical War --; 8. The Pricing of Progressivism --; Epilogue: Toward GDP --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674982529; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674982529
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Eli Cook.

How did Americans come to quantify their society’s well-being in units of money? In our GDP-run world, prices are the measure of not only goods and commodities but our environment, communities, nation, even self-worth. Eli Cook shows how, and why, we moderns lost sight of earlier social and moral metrics that did not put a price on everyday life.