The Pricing of Progress

Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life

Eli Cook

Add to Cart

Product Details

HARDCOVER

$29.95 • £23.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674976283

Publication Date: 09/25/2017

Trade

368 pages

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

World

Related Subjects

Introduction
1. The Political Arithmetic of Price
2. Seeing like a Capitalist
3. The Spirit of Non-Capitalism
4. The Age of Moral Statistics
5. The Hunt for Growth
6. The Coronation of King Capital
7. State of Statistical War
8. The Pricing of Progressivism
Epilogue: Toward GDP
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Awards & Accolades

2018 S-USIH Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual History

2017 Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize, Journal of the History of Ideas

Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State, by Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule, from Harvard University Press

Recent News

Alexander Keyssar, author of Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?, spoke with WBUR (Boston, MA)’s On Point about the endurance of the problematic fixture of American democracy.
At the Washington Post, Tom Zoellner, author of Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire, (re)introduced the forgotten holiday “August First Day,” which commemorates Britain’s passage of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1834—legislation that marked the beginning of legal freedom for 800,000 enslaved people across its many colonial holdings.
Atomic Doctors author James L. Nolan, Jr., spoke with Inside Edition about the discovery of his grandfather’s role in helping to build the atomic bomb.

Black lives matter. Black voices matter. A statement from HUP »

From Our Blog

Jacket: Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age, by James L. Nolan, Jr., from Harvard University Press

Remembering Hiroshima

On this day 75 years ago, the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. James L. Nolan Jr.’s grandfather was a doctor who participated in the Manhattan Project, and he writes about him in Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age, an unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the project. Below, please find the introduction to Nolan’s book. On the morning of June 17, 1945, Captain James F. Nolan, MD, boarded a plane…