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Angus Deaton

Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in economic sciences, is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor Emeritus of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. His books include Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality and Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism.

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Morning fog blankets a cemetery in Huntington, W.Va., Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Huntington was once ground-zero for this opioid epidemic. Several years ago, they formed a team that within days visits everyone who overdoses to try to pull them back from the brink. It was a hard-fought battle, but it worked. The county's overdose rate plummeted. They wrestled down an HIV cluster. They finally felt hope. Then the pandemic arrived and it undid much of their effort: overdoses shot up again, so did HIV diagnoses. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

How Misreading Adam Smith Helped Spawn Deaths of Despair

The anti-regulatory ethos of libertarian economics has dire consequences.

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Deaths of Despair

Boston Review talks with Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton about COVID-19, the relationship between culture, financial hardship, and health, and why capitalism’s flaws are proving fatal for America’s working class. 
Joshua Cohen, Angus Deaton

Forum Responses

Response: Response to Effective Altruism

Helping others is good, not least because of the happiness it brings to the giver. And it is hard not to admire Matt Wage, or Peter Singer. But why do the world’s...
Angus Deaton

Response: Making Aid Work — Forum Response

While skepticism about foreign aid used to be the preserve of the political right, it has now spread to some who clearly recognize the moral imperative of the world’s rich to help...
Angus Deaton

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