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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.
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The Pricing of Progress, Melissa Cook
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- 2017
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- Title
- The Pricing of Progress
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Melissa Cook
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publisher
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0674976282
- ISBN13
- 9780674976283
- Description
- 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.