Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (eBook)

Anne Case, Angus Deaton (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21706-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.3.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 26 b/w illus. 2 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Abuse • addiction • Adult • African Americans • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • alcoholic liver disease • alcoholism • American capitalism • americans • Angus Deaton • Bachelor's degree • Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers • behalf • birth cohort • Blood pressure • Bowling alone • Bureau of Labor Statistics • Calculation • Cancer • Capitalism • Cardiovascular Disease • Cause of Death • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • chronic pain • Coal Mining • Competition • consumer • Consumption (Economics) • crack epidemic • Creative Destruction • Crony Capitalism • Current population survey (US) • Death • death certificate • Death spiral (insurance) • deindustrialization • Delusional parasitosis • Demography • Depression (mood) • developed country • Disability • disaster • Disease • Dissolution of the Soviet Union • Drug overdose • Dystopia • Economic Growth • Economic Inequality • economist • economy • Employment • Epidemic • Esophageal cancer • Expense • Fentanyl • Financial Engineering • Formication • Globalization • Great Recession • Health Care • healthcare industry • health insurance • Health system • Hedge Fund • Heroin • Household • Immigration • income • income distribution • Income Tax • In Death • Inflation • insurance • Investor • Labour Economics • Life Expectancy • Liver Cancer • lobbying • Longevity • market analysis • Market power • Markup (business) • Mass murder • Measures of national income and output • Median income • Medicaid • Mental distress • Meritocracy • middle age • middle class • minimum wage • Minimum wage in the United States • Mining • Monopoly price • Monopoly profit • mortality rate • Obesity • of education • Old age • Opioid • opioid use disorder • Outsourcing • oxycodone • Pain • pain management • Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act • Pension • percentage • Pharmaceutical Industry • Physician • Policy • Politician • Poverty • poverty in the United States • poverty threshold • Price Fixing • Princeton University • private sector • Product market • Profiteering (business) • psychological pain • Public Health • Racism • Recession • Relapse • Rent-Seeking • Retail • salary • SCAR • Scholarship • Self-report study • Shareholder • Slavery • sobriety • Social capital • social conservatism • Social Cost • Social Disintegration • Social Exclusion • Sociology • Stock market crash • Subsidy • Suicide Prevention • Supply (economics) • Tax • The Public Interest • Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement • Trade secret • Typhus • Unemployment • Unemployment benefits • wage • Warren Buffett • Wealth • wealth tax • welfare • white americans • Workforce • Working Class • wrongdoing • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21706-8 / 0691217068
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21706-2 / 9780691217062