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Deaths Of Despair And The Future Of Capitalism — Angus Deaton

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Future of Capitalism

Anani: I had a long-term interest in happiness and measures of happiness. We discovered that there had been a big upsurge in suicide among the Middle Age white Americans. So suicides are not big enough to produce this, so what else is going on? That's when we discovered opioids, we just covered rice and alcoholic liver disease. Anani: In Italy, all countries, all rich countries, including Australia, has driven the rapid decline in mortality in the last quarter of the 20th century. Seems to have stopped doing that and is beginning to turn around different rates in different countries.

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