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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism / Angus Deaton, Anne Case.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) : 26 b/w illus. 2 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691217062
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.28 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6548.U6
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)