The pricing of progress: economic indicators and the capitalization of american life
Auteur :
Cook, Eli
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674976283
Date de publication :
25 sept. 2017
Dimensions :
21,0 x 15,0 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
1275 g
Format :
book
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.