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The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life

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Availability:In StockContributor:Eli CookPublish date:2017-09-25Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674976283ISBN-10:674976282UPC:9780674976283Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:United States, Free Enterprise & Capitalism, Economic HistorySize:9.30 x 6.40 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCANA7Y1TC

The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life

How did Americans come to quantify their society's progress and well-being in units of money? In today's GDP-run world, prices are the standard measure of not only our goods and commodities but our environment, our communities, our nation, even our self-worth. The Pricing of Progress traces the long history of how and why we moderns adopted the monetizing values and valuations of capitalism as an...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674976283ISBN-10:674976282UPC:9780674976283Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:United States, Free Enterprise & Capitalism, Economic HistorySize:9.30 x 6.40 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCANA7Y1TC
Cook, Eli: - Eli Cook is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Haifa.
Publisher: Harvard University Press

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