The Progress Of America
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Author | : Arthur Alphonse Ekirch |
Publisher | : Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, 511 |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : History |
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Portrays the American faith in progress from 1815-1860 and analyzes the idea of progress in terms of the interests and groups which it served.
Author | : Eli Cook |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2017-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674982541 |
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 not only our goods and commodities but our environment, our communities, our nation, even our self-worth. The Pricing of Progress traces 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. Eli Cook roots the rise of economic indicators in the emergence of modern capitalism and the contested history of English enclosure, Caribbean slavery, American industrialization, economic thought, and corporate power. He explores how the maximization of market production became the chief objective of American economic and social policy. We see how distinctly capitalist quantification techniques used to manage or invest in railroad corporations, textile factories, real estate holdings, or cotton plantations escaped the confines of the business world and seeped into every nook and cranny of society. As economic elites quantified the nation as a for-profit, capitalized investment, the progress of its inhabitants, free or enslaved, came to be valued according to their moneymaking abilities. Today as in the nineteenth century, political struggles rage over who gets to determine the statistical yardsticks used to gauge the “health” of our economy and nation. The Pricing of Progress helps us grasp the limits and dangers of entrusting economic indicators to measure social welfare and moral goals.
Author | : Richard Miller Devens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 746 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Industries |
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Author | : Richard Swainson Fisher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : John Podesta |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2008-08-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0307405699 |
AMERICA IS FACING UNPRECEDENTED CHAL LENGES—new threats to our economic well-being, our environment, and our security. The American people are looking for real answers; the next president must mobilize our government and our citizens in ways that no president has done since FDR. America needs the power of progress . . . once again. At the turn of the twentieth century, the American Dream was beginning to dim in a nation riven by growing inequalities in wealth and run by a powerful network of privileged industrialists and their political allies. But that era also gave birth to a renaissance in American political thought that forever changed our nation. At a time when conservative ideology served as an excuse for the accumulation of wealth and privilege, the original Progressive movement created a new political order built on America’s basic principles—justice and equality for all, economic opportunity, and a commitment to the common good. The lives of all Americans have been profoundly improved by the achievements of progressive reformers, from the eight-hour workday and voting rights to our victory in the Cold War and the economic gains middle-class Americans enjoyed under our most recent progressive president, Bill Clinton. Today’s challenges demand a second great Progressive era. America needs an economy in which workers at every income level share in our riches; a climate policy that stops global warming and ends our addiction to fossil fuels; and American leadership in the global fight against terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and poverty. In The Power of Progress, John Podesta—former Clinton chief of staff—along with his colleague, John Halpin, explains how progressive values changed America in the wake of the Gilded Age and how these values will reshape America after the Bush presidency. Tapping the spirit of great progressive leaders from Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt to Martin Luther King Jr., The Power of Progress provides the road map toward a government responsive to the needs of its citizens; one that is focused on our generation’s greatest challenges: combating global warming, growing our economy and expanding the middle class, and meeting America’s twenty-first-century security challenges.
Author | : John Macgregor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : John Macgregor (Secretary to the Board of Trade.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1550 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : John Macgregor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1362 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : [Saunders Catalog] |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2013-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781314750591 |
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Author | : John MacGregor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1432 |
Release | : 1847 |
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