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The Pricing of Progress

Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life

Eli Cook

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ISBN 9780674976283

Publication Date: 09/25/2017

368 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Eli Cook is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Haifa.

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Read Eli Cook’s argument in the Chicago Tribune that Americans are uniquely predisposed to put a price on “everyday life” due to the precedent set by the slave trade, which normalized the setting of prices on human beings
On WNHN (Concord, NH)’s The Attitude, listen to Cook explain [at 31:40] how Americans came to believe that the cost of everything is the value of…everything
At Zócalo Public Square, read Cook’s explanation for the American obsession with “putting a price tag on life”
At the Atlantic, read Cook’s essay on “how money became the measure of everything”
At TIME, read Cook’s argument that it is folly to use short-term economic indicators like falling stock prices as measurements of political success and failure
At the Economic Sociology and Political Economy blog, read Cook on Leonora Barry, whom he deems “one of the most important—and forgotten—economic thinkers of Gilded Age America”
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