Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
by Anne Case, Angus Deaton · first published 2020
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Who do you think ODs on drugs? Just random people making bad choices? Obviously not. It's people who are losing hope, losing community, and losing themselves. Read "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism" from respected economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190785/de...
on “American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades” ↗I see a lot of comments in this thread in support this stance, as if that is something good for Americans, and say it is not a political statement. One thing that changed my viewpoint was this book. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case, and Angus Deaton. In it, they make a point that, almost all US economists agree that immigration, both legal and Illegal Immigration, is not the cause for American working middle class…
on “U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications” ↗FYI Looks like this OC is about one facet of the book "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism" [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" https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190785/de...…
on “2021 Could See over 100k Drug Overdose Deaths in America” ↗…Abdul-Jabbar - My Gita, Devdutt Pattanaik - The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande - Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible, Albert Bourla - Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, Anne Case - The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic, Joe Miller - Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, John Green - Twenty Thousand…
on “Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?” ↗Artifact ? What do you mean? I stated where I found this claim. > Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case, and Angus Deaton. And all the references it has.
…to criticize optimists for grounding their expectations in historical precedents while simultaneously dismissing proposed solutions to mass AI displacement due to historical precedents. Furthermore, "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism" does not provide a strong foundation for the author's argument, as the case study involves numerous confounding factors contributing to rising suicide rates, drug overdoses, and alcoholic liver disease…
on “The Dead Economy Theory” ↗