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Eli Cook
Eli Cook is an assistant professor of history at the University of Haifa. He is the author of
The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life
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How Money Became the Measure of Everything
Two centuries ago, America pioneered a way of thinking that puts human well-being in economic terms.
Eli Cook
October 19, 2017