Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton

In the summer of 2014 economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton embarked on a study of the relationship between happiness and suicide. It didn’t take long for them to find alarming statistics, and not just about suicide. The health of White middle-aged Americans, mostly men, was declining. That is not supposed to happen. For decades people all over the world have…