The pricing of progress
Eeonomic indicators and the capitalization of american life
- ISBN: 9780674976283
- Editorial: Harvard University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2017
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge (MSS). Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 346
- Idiomas: Inglés
Papel: Cartoné
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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.
