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Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, twin revolutions swept through American business and government. In business, large corporations came to dominat
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-25 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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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
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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,
History of the Idea of Progress
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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
A Short History of Progress
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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