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- Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism Anne., Deaton, Ang
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
069119078X
ISBN-13
9780691190785
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18038768838
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Publication Name
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Subject
Public Health, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Economics / General, Psychopathology / Addiction, Suicide
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Business & Economics, Psychology, Medical
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
25 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
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2019-040360
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"The policies that the authors advocate not only would address deaths of despair, they would improve the health and welfare of the American people more generally." ---David Canning, Science, "Case and Deaton explain how every detail of this crisis unfolded, examining recent historical events and rightly placing much of the blame on the United States' distinctive strain of capitalism, designed to protect and grow the assets of the wealthy few." ---Keri Leigh Merrit, Common Dreams, "Refreshing . . . a careful, deep, and troubling look at the America that lies beyond the Ivy League." ---James K. Galbraith, Project Syndicate, "Gripping. . . . [Case and Deaton] do not merely rehearse decades of mortality and wage statistics. Rather, they seek to catalogue how an entire way of life first frayed and then fell apart over the past half-century, and the cruelty of an American meritocracy that heaps lavish rewards on the winners while increasingly leaving others to rot." ---Joshua Chaffin, Financial Times, "Building on Case and Deaton's extraordinarily influential research on the mortality resulting from the tragic opioid epidemic in the United States, this book examines three causes of death - drug overdose, suicide, and alcohol-related liver disease - that have risen rapidly since the mid-1990s. It is extraordinarily well written - sweeping yet succinct. And though it was published before the COVID-19 crisis, its critique of the US approach to health care and inequality is remarkably prescient." ---Ken Rogoff, Project Syndicate, Complementing their candid prose with enlightening charts and graphs, Case and Deaton make the scale and immediacy of the problem crystal clear. This is an essential portrait of America in crisis., " Deaths of Despair is designed to shine a light on a generational catastrophe that could--perhaps will--become a multigenerational disaster. It does this with chilling precision." ---Mike Jakeman, Strategy+Business, "Case and Deaton's extraordinary research in this book is an important warning of the consequences this might have for people's health and wellbeing and family and community life." ---Economic Annals, Jelena zarkovic, "Simply put, this is a terrific book. I suspect it will be on many people's top 10 book lists of 2020. Although written before COVID-19, the book's critique of the US approach to health care and inequality is remarkably prescient. In many ways, the opioid crisis Case and Deaton analyze is a microcosm of the anguish the world is experiencing today, and we would be remiss not to pay attention to their insights." ---Kenneth Rogoff, Finance & Development, "Although the authors completed this book before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic -- it was published four days after President Trump declared a national emergency -- their diagnosis is still painfully relevant." ---Carlos Lozada, Washington Post, "Anne Case and Angus Deaton are senior economists at Princeton with expertise in public health and poverty, respectively. The combination, plus clear writing and ample doses of caution and open-mindedness, makes Deaths of Despair a compelling book." ---Edward Hadas, Reuters BreakingViews, "Elaborately explained and well-presented. . . . Case and Deaton's well-written and gloomy book was meant as a warning. Relentlessly fighting an infectious disease, the U.S. government seems to have treated it as a handbook." ---Joakim Book, American Institute for Economic Research, "The system is broken and every bit of it needs fixing. This is a sobering - and essential - book." ---Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist, This highly important book examines the pain and despair among white blue-collar workers and suggests that the hopelessness they are experiencing may eventually extend to the entire American work force., "Disturbing. . . . . Case and Deaton do a great job making the case that something has gone grievously wrong." ---Jim Zarroli, NPR, " Deaths of Despair [ and the future of American Capitalism ] is on a short list of the most important books of the 21st century for what is going on in our country." ---David Leonhardt, New York Times columnist, " Deaths of Despair is on a short list of the most important books of the 21st century for what is going on in our country." ---David Leonhardt, New York Times columnist, "Through simple figures and clear prose, it presents a huge bodyof evidence from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's WONDER database and other sources that the arc of the white working class's fate over the last two decades is long, but it bends toward nihilism and an early grave." ---Gabriel Rossman, Washington Examiner, "Well researched and incisive. . . . This is a tragic, but important book, and hopefully it helps to nudge the needle towards where badly needed social reforms need to go." ---Simon Cocking, Irish Tech News, "We Americans are reluctant to acknowledge that our economy serves the educated classes and penalizes the rest. But that's exactly the situation, and Deaths of Despair shows how the immiseration of the less educated has resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, even as the economy has thrived and the stock market has soared." ---Atul Gawande, New Yorker, "The authors add an important dimension to the growing body of research on the suffering of African Americans in the US; but their main argument is that it is the uneducated white working class that is now in "long-term and slowly unfolding" freefall." ---Anne Nelson, Times Literary Supplement, "I'll offer my own endorsement from the [New York Times Notable] 100: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism , by Anne Case and Angus Deaton. It covers arguably the single most alarming development in American life, one that helps explain the frustration pulsing through the country: In many communities, people are not living as long as their parents did." ---David Leonhardt, New York Times, "A must-read for anyone attempting to objectively understand our collective American pain as well as those gaining from it." ---Rahul Gupta, Democracy, "[Case and Deaton] dive into and weave the data through different demographic and clinical lenses -- race, gender, age, social connectedness, work history, and the most important through-line: education. Thus Case and Deaton connect the dots, literally, in the many charts that explain what factors are driving the Deaths of Despair ." ---Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi Blog, The rise in premature deaths among working-class whites has become a national crisis, and the authors tie the problem to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and to a health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages to the wealthy., Why economics really matters is illustrated in Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism . . . . The authors argue that the capitalism that lifted countless people out of poverty is now destroying blue-collar America. They have solutions to make it work for all. They had better be right.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
362.28
Synopsis
New York Times Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Sunday Times Best Business Books of 2020 New York Times Notable 100 Science News Favorite Books of 2020 Inside Higher Ed , Best Books of 2020 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., 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 health-care 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., A New York Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year A New Statesman Book to Read 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 health-care 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., New York Times Bestseller 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.
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