Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Cambridge, MA |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Number of pages | 326 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780674982529 |
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| State | Published - 2017 |