Eli Cook is a Senior Lecturer in the General History Department at the University of Haifa in Israel and head of the American Studies Program. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2013. He is an intellectual, cultural and economic historian of American and global capitalism. His first book, The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life was published by Harvard University Press in 2017 and won two intellectual history best book awards from the Society for US Intellectual History and from theJournal of the History of Ideas. Focusing on the seventeenth to early twentieth century in the Atlantic World, this book sought to explain why we moderns have come to measure progress in units of money. His new project examines the idea of "free choice" in neoliberal America.
Contact
email: elicook@gmail.com
Office: Eshkol bldg., floor 13, room 1305
Office phone: 04-8240915
Personal website: https://haifa.academia.edu/EliCook
Select Publications
The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2017).
Teaching
A Short History of Capitalism
The History of Economic Thought
An Introduction to the History of the United States in the 20th Century
Consumer Culture