The event “Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism” – A Conversation with Anne Case & Angus Deaton, originally scheduled for April 15, has been postponed.
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NYU DRI: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
A Conversation with Anne Case & Angus Deaton
Moderated by Ezekiel Emanuel
Africa House Affiliate, NYU Development institute, along with Princeton University Press and The New York Academy of Medicine invite you to a conversation with Princeton economists Anne Case and Nobel Prize-winner Angus Deaton, moderated by Ezekiel Emanuel of the University of Pennsylvania.
Since they first discovered a shocking rise in deaths by suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism in middle-aged white Americans and coined the term “deaths of despair,” Anne Case and Angus Deaton and their dramatic discoveries have had a profound influence on domestic and international news. In Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, Case and Deaton at last bring their findings together in one authoritative, compelling narrative, show how the problem could still become much worse, and blame this era-defining epidemic on an economy run wild and a disgraceful healthcare system—all through a devastating critique of capitalism.
Copies of Deaths of Despair will be available for purchase and signed by the authors.
About the Authors:
Anne Case, Ph.D., is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University.
Sir Angus Deaton, Ph.D., winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in economics, is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University and Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California.
Moderator:
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, Ph.D., is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Special Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.