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The pricing of progress : economic i...

Cook, Eli (1981-)

The pricing of progress : economic indicators and the capitalization of American life

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : 單行本
副題名:	economic indicators and the capitalization of American life
作者:	CookEli, 1981-
出版地:	Cambridge, Mass.
出版者:	Harvard University Press;
出版年:	2017
面頁冊數:	352 p.25 cm.;
標題:	Capitalism - History - United States -
標題:	Economic indicators - History - United States -
標題:	Progress -
標題:	Valuation - History - United States -
附註:	Includes bibliographical references and index
摘要註:	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 indicator of human prosperity while losing sight of earlier social and moral metrics that did not put a price on everyday life. Cook roots the rise of economic indicators in the emergence of modern capitalism and the contested history of English enclosure, Caribbean slavery, American industrialization, economic thought, and corporate power. He explores how the maximization of market production became the chief objective of American economic and social policy. We see how distinctly capitalist quantification techniques used to manage or invest in railroad corporations, textile factories, real estate holdings, or cotton plantations escaped the confines of the business world and seeped into every nook and cranny of society. As economic elites quantified the nation as a for-profit, capitalized investment, the progress of its inhabitants, free or enslaved, came to be valued according to their moneymaking abilities. Today as in the 19th century, political struggles rage over who gets to determine the statistical yardsticks used to gauge the "health" of our economy and nation.The Pricing of Progress helps us grasp the limits and dangers of entrusting economic indicators to measure social welfare and moral goals.-- Provided by publisher
ISBN:	978-0-674-97628-3
內容註:	The political arithmetic of price Seeing like a capitalist The spirit of non-capitalism The age of moral statistics The hunt for growth The coronation of King Capital State of statistical war The pricing of progressivism Epilogue: Toward GDP

The pricing of progress : economic indicators and the capitalization of American life
Cook, Eli

The pricing of progress : economic indicators and the capitalization of American life / Eli Cook - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2017. - 352 p. ; 25 cm..
The political arithmetic of price.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-674-97628-3
CapitalismEconomic indicatorsProgressValuation -- History -- History -- History -- United States -- United States -- United States

The pricing of progress : economic indicators and the capitalization of American life
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