America’s Compromised State
Jul 17, 2020 traces the country's failure to manage the COVID-19 pandemic to the 1787 compromise that created the Senate.
Angus Deaton
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).
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America’s Compromised State 
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United States of Despair United States of Despair
Jun 15, 2020 & show that the COVID-19 crisis will exacerbate pre-existing inequalities, but not always how one might expect.
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An Interview with Angus Deaton An Interview with Angus Deaton
Feb 18, 2020 proposes how to address America’s “deaths of despair,” suggests which philosophers every economist should read, and shares what US voters need to know before November’s presidential election.
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Inequality in Cambridge and Chicago Inequality in Cambridge and Chicago
Jan 3, 2020 welcomes the growing chorus of hard questions about the real-world effects of neoclassical economics.
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What’s Wrong with Contemporary Capitalism? What’s Wrong with Contemporary Capitalism?
Mar 13, 2019 asks why, in advanced countries since around 1970, the economy no longer serves most citizens' interests.
