@book {1157449, title = {The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life}, year = {2017}, publisher = {Harvard University Press}, organization = {Harvard University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, abstract = {How did Americans come to quantify their society{\textquoteright}s progress and well-being in units of money? In today{\textquoteright}s GDP-run world, prices are the standard measure of not only our goods and commodities but our environment, our communities, our nation, even our self-worth.\ The Pricing of Progresstraces the long history of how and why we moderns adopted the monetizing values and valuations of capitalism as an indicator of human prosperity while losing sight of earlier social and moral metrics that did not put a price on everyday life.}, url = {http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976283}, author = {Eli Cook} }