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The Pricing of Progress - Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life
Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life
- Editore:
Harvard University Press
- EAN:
9780674976283
- ISBN:
0674976282
- Pagine:
- 368
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione 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 moral metrics that did not put a price on everyday life.
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