
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
Anne Case and Angus Deaton
#2913 of 3,809 books · #54 in Business & Economics
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award (2020).
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.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780691190785
- Genre
- Topics
- Deaths of despairIncome inequalityHealthcare system
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