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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
By: Anne Case, Angus Deaton
Paperback | 1 August 2020 | Edition Number 1
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Wall Street Journal Bestseller
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award 2020
From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class
Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In the past two decades, deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism have risen dramatically, and now claim hundreds of thousands of American lives each year and they're still rising.
Anne Case and Angus Deaton, known for first sounding the alarm about deaths of despair, explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class. They demonstrate why, for those who used to prosper in America, capitalism is no longer delivering.
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism paints a troubling portrait of the American dream in decline. For the white working class, today's America has become a land of broken families and few prospects. As the college educated become healthier and wealthier, adults without a degree are literally dying from pain and despair. In this critically important book, Case and Deaton tie the crisis to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and, above all, to a rapacious healthcare sector that redistributes working class wages into the pockets of the wealthy.
Capitalism, which over two centuries lifted countless people out of poverty, is now destroying the lives of blue collar America. This book charts a way forward, providing solutions that can rein in capitalism's excesses and make it work for everyone.
About the Author
Anne Case is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University. Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in economics, is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University and Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. His books include The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Princeton).
They live in Princeton, New Jersey.
Industry Reviews
Robert D. Putnam author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids
"In the face of a government that failed to protect ordinary working-class Americans from the greed-fueled opioid epidemic and a media that was slow to notice the problem, Anne Case and Angus Deaton are true sentinels. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism is an urgent and clarion call to rethink pain, inequality, justice, and the business of being human in America. This book explains America to itself. I underlined damn near every sentence."
Beth Macy author of Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
"In this superb book, Case and Deaton connect the dots to explain the dramatic rise of deaths of despair among working-class white Americans. Totally unexpectedly, they trace the root cause to an exorbitantly expensive health-care system that sucks - and wastes - billions of dollars and so much human talent away from improving lives."
Ezekiel J. Emanuel University of Pennsylvania
"With stunning data analysis, close observation, and smoldering urgency, Case and Deaton show why mounting deaths of despair are not only a public health disaster but also an indictment of the metastasizing stratification that is undermining working-class America."
David Autor Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"This book explains so many of today's headlines with clear writing, sharp storytelling, and an almost symphonic use of research in economics, public health, and history. What it summons is a powerful analysis of who we are as Americans and what we have become as a country."
Sam Quinones author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
"America is experiencing a catastrophe. Those without a college degree are not just being left behind; they are dying from deaths of despair. Case and Deaton brilliantly describe and dissect the causes and explain how we can return to a path of rising prosperity and health. All citizens - voters as well as politicians aspiring to office - should read and discuss this book."
Mervyn King former governor of the Bank of England
"Deaths of despair among US whites with low education cannot be attributed to lack of access to health care or ignorance of healthy lifestyles. When two leading economists turn their attention to the social determinants of this modern epidemic, the result is brilliant."
Sir Michael G. Marmot author of The Health Gap
ISBN: 9780691207827
ISBN-10: 0691207828
Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks
Published: 1st August 2020
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 328
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: US
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 23.3 x 15.3 x 2.6
Weight (kg): 0.41
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