There will be a workshop with Eli Cook on his book The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life on Monday, July 24, from noon to approximately 6 pm.
So far, the venue is scheduled to be the Obama Institute meeting room on the 3rd floor in the Philosophicum II (Jakob-Welder-Weg 20). Please pay attention to possible changes.
We will discuss the book The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life together with Eli Cook. In this book, Cook traces how money became the measure of all things in Western societies (he begins in Britain and then focuses primarily on the U.S.), leading to the capitalization of lives, and the increased differentiation of people according to their profit-making abilities.
We will start the workshop on Monday, July 24, at 12 noon with a shared meal and then move into discussion. We anticipate an intensive, interdisciplinary engagement with the book and author in the form of a moderated conversation with Eli Cook.
If you are interested or have any questions please send an e-mail to bassimir@uni-mainz.de
Short biographical sketch
Eli Cook is an Associate Professor of history at the University of Haifa. He specializes in the history of American capitalism. Cook received his PhD from Harvard University in 2013. His first book, The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life, won the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s Best Book Award as well as the Morris D. Forkosch Best Book Prize from the Journal of the History of the Ideas. He is currently working on a new book on the history of “choice architects” and the analog origins of digital capitalism for Penguin-Random House.
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