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http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/class-inequality\/joshua-cohen-angus-deaton-deaths-despair<\/a><\/p>\n Boston Review<\/em>\u00a0talks with Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton about COVID-19, the relationship between culture, financial hardship, and health, and why capitalism\u2019s flaws are proving fatal for America\u2019s working class.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n JOSHUA COHEN<\/a>,\u00a0ANGUS DEATON<\/a><\/p>\n In the mid 2010s, he and economist Anne Case turned their attention to what seemed to be a startling trend: the reversal of declines in mortality rates for white working-class Americans in middle age. That research culminated in the March 2020 publication of their book\u00a0Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism<\/em>.<\/p>\n In the book you focus on these deaths of despair: 158,000 in 2018, about 100,000 of which are above and beyond what we would normally expect, an excess that is almost entirely among white non-Hispanic men and women without a college degree. The category covers three different causes of death: alcohol, opioids, and suicide. Could you talk about why you group them together?….<\/p>\n …We valorize this bachelor\u2019s degree in a ridiculous way that\u2019s not pinned to anything that people can actually do. It\u2019s this one goal which leaves behind the two thirds of the people in this country who are not going to get it…..And the health care crises make things worse. Health care costs were 5 percent of GDP back in 1970, and now they\u2019re 18 percent of GDP. Everything is heaping up on these people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2020\/5\/5 Boston Review http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/class-inequality\/joshua-cohen-angus-deaton-deaths-despair Boston Review\u00a0talks with Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton about COVID-19, the relationship between culture, financial hardship, and health, and why capitalism\u2019s flaws are proving fatal for America\u2019s working class. JOSHUA COHEN,\u00a0ANGUS DEATON In the mid 2010s, he and economist Anne Case turned their attention to what seemed to be a startling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","category-international-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4757,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions\/4757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}