Eli Cook: 1 book
The Pricing of Progress
Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
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.
