The Pricing of Progress : : Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life / / 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 me...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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