DEATHS OF DESPAIR AND THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM
by Anne Case and Angus Deaton
Princeton University Press,
Princeton, New Jersey
Hardcover: 312 pages
Price: AUD$47.99
Reviewed by Brian Coman
“Knowledge is of two kinds,” said Dr Johnson. “We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
The book under review – Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism – supplies that second kind of knowledge. It assembles and dissects a vast bo…