The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life

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 mor...

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1. Verfasser: Cook, Eli (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2017]
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Zusammenfassung: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
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (326 pages)
ISBN:9780674982529
DOI:10.4159/9780674982529