Angus Deaton: The cost of the 'deaths of despair'
Nobel Prize winning economist Sir Angus Deaton talks about his new work on 'deaths of despair' - those attributed to suicide, drug and alcohol abuse
How do we judge the health of our economic systems? HARDtalk鈥檚 Stephen Sackur speaks to the Nobel Prize winning economist Sir Angus Deaton who believes it鈥檚 about much more than the headline numbers on jobs and growth. He has focused on what he calls the deaths of despair 鈥� those attributed to suicide, drug and alcohol abuse 鈥� and concludes American capitalism is sick. Now, of course, coronavirus is having its own impact on mortality data. Does capitalism itself need emergency surgery?
Photo: 2015 Nobel Prize winner in Economics Angus Deaton Credit: AFP
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