TY  - BOOK
AU  - Case,Anne
AU  - Deaton,Angus
TI  - Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
SN  - 9780691217062
AV  - HV6548.U6 
U1  - 362.28 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Drug abuse
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Drugs
KW  - Overdose
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Suicide
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Addiction
KW  - Adult
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Alcoholic liver disease
KW  - Alcoholism
KW  - American Capitalism
KW  - Americans
KW  - Angus Deaton
KW  - Bachelor's degree
KW  - Behalf
KW  - Birth cohort
KW  - Blood pressure
KW  - Bowling Alone
KW  - Bureau of Labor Statistics
KW  - Calculation
KW  - Cardiovascular disease
KW  - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
KW  - Chronic pain
KW  - Competition
KW  - Consumer
KW  - Crack epidemic
KW  - Current population survey (US)
KW  - Death certificate
KW  - Death
KW  - Demography
KW  - Depression (mood)
KW  - Developed country
KW  - Disability
KW  - Disaster
KW  - Disease
KW  - Drug overdose
KW  - Economic growth
KW  - Economic inequality
KW  - Economist
KW  - Economy
KW  - Employment
KW  - Epidemic
KW  - Fentanyl
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Great Recession
KW  - Health care
KW  - Health insurance
KW  - Health system
KW  - Healthcare industry
KW  - Heroin
KW  - Household
KW  - Immigration
KW  - In Death
KW  - Income
KW  - Insurance
KW  - Life expectancy
KW  - Lobbying
KW  - Longevity
KW  - Market power
KW  - Measures of national income and output
KW  - Medicaid
KW  - Mental distress
KW  - Meritocracy
KW  - Middle age
KW  - Minimum wage
KW  - Mortality rate
KW  - Obesity
KW  - Of Education
KW  - Old age
KW  - Opioid
KW  - Oxycodone
KW  - Pain management
KW  - Pain
KW  - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
KW  - Pension
KW  - Percentage
KW  - Pharmaceutical industry
KW  - Physician
KW  - Politician
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Princeton University
KW  - Private sector
KW  - Psychological pain
KW  - Public health
KW  - Recession
KW  - Rent-seeking
KW  - Retail
KW  - Salary
KW  - Scholarship
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Subsidy
KW  - Supply (economics)
KW  - Tax
KW  - The Public Interest
KW  - Unemployment
KW  - Wage
KW  - Warren Buffett
KW  - Wealth
KW  - Welfare
KW  - White Americans
KW  - Workforce
KW  - Working class
KW  - Year
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface to the Paper back --; Preface --; Introduction: Death in the afternoon --; Part I. Past as Prologue --; 1 The Calm before the Storm --; 2 Things Come Apart --; 3 Deaths of Despair --; Part II. The Anatomy of the Battlefield --; 4 The Lives and Deaths of the More (and Less) Educated --; 5 Black and White Deaths --; 6 The Health of the Living --; 7 The Misery and Mystery of Pain --; 8 Suicide, Drugs, and Alcohol --; 9 Opioids --; Part III. What’s the Economy Got to Do with It? --; 10 False Trails: Poverty, Income, and the Great Recession --; 11 Growing Apart at Work --; 12 Widening Gaps at Home --; Part IV. Why Is Capitalism Failing So Many? --; 13 How American Healthcare Is Undermining Lives --; 14 Capitalism, Immigrants, Robots, and China --; 15 Firms, Consumers, and Workers --; 16 What to Do? --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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 classDeaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism are rising dramatically in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of American lives. Anne Case and Angus Deaton 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. As the college educated become healthier and wealthier, adults without a degree are literally dying from pain and despair. Case and Deaton tie the crisis to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and a rapacious health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages into the pockets of the wealthy. This critically important book paints a troubling portrait of the American dream in decline, and provides solutions that can rein in capitalism's excesses and make it work for everyone
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691217062?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691217062
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691217062/original
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