The Pricing of Progress

The Pricing of Progress
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : 9780674982543
ISBN-13 : 0674982541
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Book Synopsis The Pricing of Progress by : Eli Cook

Download or read book The Pricing of Progress written by Eli Cook and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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