Audiobook Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

A New York Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year A New Statesman Book to Read This audiobook narrated by Kate Harper reveals how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class, and includes an introduction and preface read by the authors themselves—economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row—a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times.

Authors:: Angus Deaton, Anne Case
Narrator:: Kate Harper
Content:: Unabridged (chapter list)
Length:: 11:48 h
Format:: MP3 download (465 MB)
Language:: English
Publisher:: Princeton University Press (2020)
Genres:: Business & Economics, Medical
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01 - Opening Anno, Dedication, Preface to the Paperback, Preface	15:28	10 MB
02 - Introduction Death in the Afternoon	43:21	28 MB
03 - Part 1, Past as Prologue, Chapter 1 - The Calm Before the Storm	24:24	16 MB
04 - Chapter 2 - Things Come Apart	19:27	12 MB
05 - Chapter 3 - Deaths of Despair	25:23	17 MB
06 - Part 2, The Anatomy of the Battlefield - Chapter 4 - The Lives and Deaths of the More and Less Educated	28:49	19 MB
07 - Chapter 5 - Black and White Deaths	18:10	12 MB
08 - Chapter 6 - The Health of the Living	29:05	19 MB
09 - Chapter 7 - The Misery and Mystery of Pain	25:43	17 MB
10 - Chapter 8 - Suicide, Drugs, and Alcohol	42:54	28 MB
11 - Chapter 9 - Opioids	68:08	45 MB
12 - Part 3, What s the Economy Got to Do With It Chapter 10 - False Trails Poverty, Income, and the Great Recession	41:14	27 MB
13 - Chapter 11 - Growing Apart at Work	51:34	33 MB
14 - Chapter 12 - Widening Gaps at Home	41:32	26 MB
15 - Part 4, Why is Capitalism Failing So Many - Chapter 13 - How American Healthcare is Undermining Lives	77:12	50 MB
16 - Chapter 14 - Capitalism, Immigrants, Robots, and China	41:41	27 MB
17 - Chapter 15 - Firms, Consumers, and Workers	56:04	36 MB
18 - Chapter 16 - What to Do	52:42	33 MB
19 - Acknowledgements, Closing Anno	5:18	3 MB

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Summary

A New York Times Bestseller
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year
A New Statesman Book to Read
This audiobook narrated by Kate Harper reveals how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class, and includes an introduction and preface read by the authors themselves—economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton
Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row—a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In the past two decades, deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism have risen dramatically, and now claim hundreds of thousands of American lives each year—and they're still rising. Anne Case and Angus Deaton, known for first sounding the alarm about deaths of despair, explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class. They demonstrate why, for those who used to prosper in America, capitalism is no longer delivering.
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism paints a troubling portrait of the American dream in decline. For the white working class, today's America has become a land of broken families and few prospects. As the college educated become healthier and wealthier, adults without a degree are literally dying from pain and despair. In this critically important book, Case and Deaton tie the crisis to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and, above all, to a rapacious health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages into the pockets of the wealthy. Capitalism, which over two centuries lifted countless people out of poverty, is now destroying the lives of blue-collar America.
This book charts a way forward, providing solutions that can rein in capitalism's excesses and make it work for everyone.

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