Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

by Anne Case, 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

ISBN: 9780691190785

324 pages

Published: 2020-03-17

Publisher: Princeton University Press

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