Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
Anne Case and Angus Deaton
While the rise in premature deaths among American working-class whites has become a national crisis, 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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 2020
- ISBN-13
- 9780691190785
- Genre
- Business & Economics
- Topics
- Deaths of despairIncome inequalityHealthcare system
Awards
- Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardShortlisted(2020)
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