Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

Deaths 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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Anne Case and Angus Deaton
With a new preface by the authors

Zusammenfassung

A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New Statesman Book to ReadFrom economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how

Zusatztext

"Winner of the Silver Medal in Business Commentary, Axiom Business Book Awards"

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anne Case, Angus Deaton, Anne Deaton Case, Deaton Angus
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.03.2021
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien
• EAN: 9780691217079
• ISBN: 978-0-691-21707-9
• Anzahl Seiten: 336
• Themen: Inflation, Heroin, competition, Globalization, death, Dystopia, Capitalism, Economics, HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, MEDICAL / Public Health, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, Health economics, John Maynard Keynes, Outsourcing, unemployment, Obesity, Poverty, income, Employment, Personal & public health, Tax, Oppression, Financial Crisis, Addiction, health care, working class, Calculation, Insurance, Bankruptcy, Welfare economics, stock market crash, recession, Suicide, Suicide attempt, heart failure, Life expectancy, Wage, African Americans, Sociology: death and dying, Personal and public health / health education, Sociology: Death & Dying, Famine, Cardiovascular Disease, Opioid, alcoholism, Poverty Reduction, Malingering, Economic inequality, Economic collapse, Monopsony, market power, rationing, Americans, deindustrialization, the economist, Competition (economics), In Death, Supply (economics), Mortality rate, Losing Ground (book), poverty in the United States, Expense, National Bureau of Economic Research, economic interventionism, Developed country, creative destruction, drug overdose, Cronyism, Price fixing, Trade Adjustment Assistance, Price controls, American capitalism, Bachelor's degree, Alcoholic liver disease, Robber baron (industrialist), opioid use disorder, Obesity in the United States, Crack epidemic, Social disintegration