LEADER 00863nam0 2200253 450 001 000033093 005 20130509132930.0 100 $a20120529d1937----km-y0itaa50------ba 101 0 $aita 102 $aIT 200 1 $a<> segreto di Pirandello$fPietro Mignosi 205 $a2. ed. con aggiunte e appendici 210 $aMilano$cTradizione editrice$dstampa 1937 215 $a177 p.$d20 cm. 700 1$aMignosi,$bPietro$0202681 801 0$aIT$bUniversità della Basilicata - B.I.A.$gRICA$2unimarc 912 $a000033093 996 $aSegreto di Pirandello$999066 997 $aUNIBAS BAS $aLETTERE CAT $aSTD078$b01$c20120529$lBAS01$h1350 CAT $aTTM$b30$c20130509$lBAS01$h1329 FMT Z30 -1$lBAS01$LBAS01$mBOOK$1BASA1$APolo Storico-Umanistico$2GEN$BCollezione generale$3FP/53701$653701$5L53701$820120529$f02$FPrestabile Generale LEADER 03015oam 2200421z- 450 001 9910158998203321 005 20230906203136.0 010 $a9781613762295 010 $a1613762291 035 $a(CKB)3710000001018625 035 $a(BIP)028562560 035 $a(BIP)052687168 035 $a(VLeBooks)9781613762295 035 $a(Perlego)3288050 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001018625 100 $a20220314d2013 uy | 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aMeasuring America $eHow Economic Growth Came to Define American Greatness in the Late Twentieth Century 210 $cUniversity of Massachusetts Press 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) $cill 311 08$a9781558498358 311 08$a1558498354 330 8 $aThe United States has always fancied itself a nation apart--exceptional in its values, traditions, and way of life. For most of the country's history, ideas about what made America distinctive generally were framed in terms of a liberal idealism rooted in the thought of John Locke and articulated by Jefferson, Madison, and other Founders. While some commentators also observed that the United States was a land of plenty, it wasn't until the mid-twentieth century that material abundance emerged as the principal standard of American greatness, as measured by a host of new economic indicators. Beginning in earnest in the wake of World War II, opinion-shapers in politics, business, academia, the media, the schools, and public diplomacy gloried in the nation's booming economy. Where plenty had once been a largely abstract concept, it was now quantifiable, thanks to new national income accounting and other economic data collection and analysis techniques. One could tally up production and consumption of an ever-expanding cornucopia of goods and services that made up the gross national product (GNP), the king of postwar statistics. American preeminence and American identity were increasingly linked with this measurable prosperity, presented in the language of a newly influential economics profession. In Measuring America, Andrew L. Yarrow explores this history, telling two parallel, interlocking stories--of how economic ideas came to have vastly greater influence on American culture after World War II, and how those ideas dovetailed with a growing belief that the meaning and value of the United States resided in its material output. How and why this new way of measuring America developed, how it was expressed, and what it has meant and means for Americans today are the subject of this well-researched and insightful book. 606 $aEconomics 606 $aNationalism 606 $aPublic opinion 615 0$aEconomics. 615 0$aNationalism. 615 0$aPublic opinion. 676 $a330.973092 700 $aYarrow$b Andrew L$0950168 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910158998203321 996 $aMeasuring America$94353245 997 $aUNINA