The Pricing of Progress PDF book is popular History book written by Eli Cook. The book was released by Harvard University Press on 2017-09-25 with total hardcover pages 365. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read The Pricing of Progress by Eli Cook in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
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 n
Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, twin revolutions swept through American business and government. In business, large corporations came to dominat
The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, learn, feel, mate,
The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and t
Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and tech