Deaths of Despair: And the future of capitalism

Deaths of Despair: And the future of capitalism

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism*

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…

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