TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cook,Eli
TI  - The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life 
SN  - 9780674982529
AV  - HC110.C3 .C665 2017
U1  - 339.373 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Economic indicators
KW  - Progress
KW  - Valuation - United States - History
KW  - Valuation
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674982529
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