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Angus Deaton: The cost of the 'deaths of despair'

Angus Deaton: The cost of the 'deaths of despair'

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He won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2015. His new work looks at 'deaths of despair'

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How do we judge the health of our economic systems? HARDtalk’s
Stephen Sackur speaks to the Nobel Prize winning economist Sir
Angus Deaton who believes it’s about much more than the headline
numbers on jobs and growth. He has focused on what he calls the
deaths of despair – those attributed to suicide, drug and alcohol
abuse – and concludes American capitalism is sick. Now, of
course, coronavirus is having its own impact on mortality data.
Does capitalism itself need emergency surgery?

Photo: 2015 Nobel Prize winner in Economics Angus Deaton Credit:
AFP