
America's Killer Capitalism
Dec 4, 2021 & show that there are no excuses for the declining prospects among less-educated cohorts.
Angus Deaton, the 2015 Nobel laureate in economics, is Professor Emeritus of Economics and International Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. He is the co-author of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, Princeton University Press, 2020.
Dec 4, 2021 & show that there are no excuses for the declining prospects among less-educated cohorts.
Jan 13, 2021 sees little chance for reforms to mitigate inequality or repair the country's broken health-care system.
Dec 28, 2020 & warn that the pandemic has accelerated trends associated with the epidemic of deaths of despair.
Jul 17, 2020 traces the country's failure to manage the COVID-19 pandemic to the 1787 compromise that created the Senate.
The ongoing war in Ukraine has prompted growing calls for European governments to halt imports of Russian hydrocarbons immediately. But, especially when it comes to natural gas, is Europe willing to bear the costs of such a dramatic shift?