The Pricing of Progress : Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life /
Cook, Eli
The Pricing of Progress : Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life / Eli Cook. - 1 online resource (326 p.)
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674982529
10.4159/9780674982529 doi
Capitalism--History.--United States
Economic indicators--History.--United States
Progress.
Valuation - United States - History.
Valuation--History.--United States
HISTORY / United States / General.
HC110.C3 / .C665 2017
339.373
The Pricing of Progress : Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life / Eli Cook. - 1 online resource (326 p.)
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674982529
10.4159/9780674982529 doi
Capitalism--History.--United States
Economic indicators--History.--United States
Progress.
Valuation - United States - History.
Valuation--History.--United States
HISTORY / United States / General.
HC110.C3 / .C665 2017
339.373