| Description |
1 online resource (x, 312 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
| Contents |
Introduction : death in the afternoon -- Part I. The past as prologue ; The calm before the storm -- Things come apart -- Deaths of despair -- Part II. The anatomy of the battlefield ; The lives and deaths of the more (and less) educated -- Black and white deaths -- The health of the living -- The misery and mystery of pain -- Suicide, drugs, and alcohol -- Opioids -- Part III. What's the economy got to do with it? ; False trails : poverty, income, and the Great Recession -- Growing apart at work -- Widening gaps at home -- Part IV. Why is capitalism failing so many? ; How American healthcare is undermining lives -- Capitalism, immigrants, robots, and China -- Firms, consumers, and workers -- What to do? |
| Summary |
"This book documents the decline of white-working class lives over the last half-century and examines the social and economic forces that have slowly made these lives more difficult. Case and Deaton argue that market and political power in the United States have moved away from labor towards capital-as unions have weakened and politics have become more favorable to business, corporations have become more powerful. Consolidation in some American industries, healthcare especially, has brought an increase in monopoly power in some product markets so that it is possible for firms to raise prices above what they would be in a freely competitive market. This, the authors argue, is a major cause of wage stagnation among working-class Americans and has played a substantial role in the increase in deaths of despair. Case and Deaton offer a way forward, including ideas that, even in our current political situation, may be feasible and improve lives." -- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Addiction |
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Adult |
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African Americans |
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Alcoholic liver disease |
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Alcoholism |
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American Capitalism |
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Americans |
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Angus Deaton |
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Bachelor's degree |
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Behalf |
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Birth cohort |
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Blood pressure |
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Bowling Alone |
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Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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Calculation |
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Capitalism |
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Cardiovascular disease |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
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Chronic pain |
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Competition |
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Consumer |
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Crack epidemic |
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Current population survey (US) |
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Death certificate |
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Death |
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Demography |
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Depression (mood) |
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Developed country |
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Disability |
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Disaster |
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Disease |
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Drug overdose |
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Economic growth |
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Economic inequality |
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Economist |
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Economy |
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Employment |
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Epidemic |
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Fentanyl |
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Globalization |
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Great Recession |
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Health care |
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Health insurance |
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Health system |
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Healthcare industry |
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Heroin |
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Household |
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Immigration |
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In Death |
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Income |
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Insurance |
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Life expectancy |
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Lobbying |
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Longevity |
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Market power |
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Measures of national income and output |
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Medicaid |
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Mental distress |
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Meritocracy |
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Middle age |
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Minimum wage |
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Mortality rate |
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Obesity |
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Of Education |
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Old age |
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Opioid |
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Oxycodone |
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Pain management |
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Pain |
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act |
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Pension |
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Percentage |
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Pharmaceutical industry |
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Physician |
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Politician |
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Poverty |
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Princeton University |
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Private sector |
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Psychological pain |
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Public health |
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Recession |
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Rent-seeking |
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Retail |
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Salary |
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Scholarship |
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Slavery |
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Sociology |
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Subsidy |
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Supply (economics) |
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Tax |
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The Public Interest |
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Unemployment |
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Wage |
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Warren Buffett |
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Wealth |
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Welfare |
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White Americans |
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Workforce |
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Working class |
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Year |
| Bibliography |
Includes chapter notes with bibliographical references (pages [265]-291), and index |
| Subject |
Suicide -- Economic aspects -- United States
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Drugs -- Overdose -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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Drug abuse -- Economic aspects -- United States
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Capitalism -- Social aspects -- United States
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General
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Capitalism -- Social aspects
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Drug abuse -- Economic aspects
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Drugs -- Overdose
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Social conditions
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Suicide -- Economic aspects
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Instructional and educational works
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History
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Instructional and educational works.
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Matériel d'éducation et de formation.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Deaton, Angus. author.
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| ISBN |
9780691217062 |
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0691217068 |
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