The Pricing of Progress

Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life

Eli Cook

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$29.95 • £23.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674976283

Publication Date: 09/25/2017

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368 pages

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

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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

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