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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674982529
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.373 23
LOC classification:
  • HC110.C3 .C665 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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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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

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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.

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