مرگ‌های ناامیدی📘دکتر آذرخش مکری

دکتر آذرخش مکری

معرفی کتاب مرگ های ناامیدی اثر انگس دیتون

امید به زندگی در ایالات متحده اخیرا برای سه سال متوالی کاهش یافته است - تغییری که از سال 1918 در هیچ کشور ثروتمند دیگری در دوران مدرن مشاهده نشده است. در دو دهه گذشته، مرگ و میر ناشی از ناامیدی ناشی از خودکشی، مصرف بیش از حد مواد مخدر و اعتیاد به الکل به طور چشمگیری افزایش یافته است و اکنون جان صدها هزار آمریکایی را هر ساله می گیرد – و هنوز هم در حال افزایش هستند. آن کیس و آنگوس دیتون، که برای اولین بار زنگ خطر مرگ ناشی از ناامیدی را به صدا درآوردند، شهرت دارند، افزایش شدید این مرگ‌ها را توضیح می‌دهند و نیروهای اجتماعی و اقتصادی را که زندگی را برای طبقه کارگر سخت‌تر می‌کنند، روشن می‌کنند. آنها نشان می دهند که چرا سرمایه داری برای کسانی که قبلا در آمریکا پیشرفت می کردند، دیگر جواب نمی دهد.

مرگ های ناامیدی و آینده سرمایه داری تصویری نگران کننده از رویای آمریکایی در حال افول را ترسیم می کند. برای طبقه کارگر سفیدپوست، آمریکای امروز به سرزمین خانواده های از هم گسیخته و چشم انداز کم تبدیل شده است. همانطور که تحصیل کرده های دانشگاهی سالم تر و ثروتمندتر می شوند، بزرگسالان بدون مدرک به معنای واقعی کلمه از درد و ناامیدی می میرند. در این کتاب بسیار مهم، کیس و دیتون، بحران را به تضعیف موقعیت نیروی کار، قدرت فزاینده شرکت‌ها، و مهم‌تر از همه، به بخش درنده‌گر مراقبت‌های بهداشتی گره می‌زنند که دستمزدهای طبقه کارگر را در جیب ثروتمندان توزیع می‌کند. سرمایه داری که طی دو قرن افراد بی شماری را از فقر نجات داد، اکنون در حال نابودی زندگی آمریکایی های یقه آبی است.

این کتاب راهی به جلو را ترسیم می‌کند و راه‌حل‌هایی ارائه می‌کند که می‌تواند افراط‌های سرمایه‌داری را مهار کند و آن را برای همه مفید کند.

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

Review

"A New York Times Bestseller"

"One of New Statesman's Books to Read in 2020"

"Excellent.", Joyce Carol Oates on Twitter

"One of the Financial Times Selected Titles for 2020 Visions: The Year Ahead in Books"

"Why economics really matters is illustrated in Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. . . . The authors argue that the capitalism that lifted countless people out of poverty is now destroying blue-collar America. They have solutions to make it work for all. They had better be right.", New Scientist "

[A] remarkable and poignant book."---Dani Rodrik, Project Syndicate

"We Americans are reluctant to acknowledge that our economy serves the educated classes and penalizes the rest. But that’s exactly the situation, and Deaths of Despair shows how the immiseration of the less educated has resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, even as the economy has thrived and the stock market has soared."---Atul Gawande, New Yorker

"Timely and important."---Ed Balls, Financial Times

"Well-researched, compassionate."---Susan Babbitt, New York Journal of Books

"An excellent book."---Nicholas Kristof, New York Times

"A remarkable new book."---John Harris, The Guardian

"The system is broken and every bit of it needs fixing. This is a sobering – and essential – book."---Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist

"Disturbing. . . . . Case and Deaton do a great job making the case that something has gone grievously wrong."---Jim Zarroli, NPR

"[Case and Deaton] dive into and weave the data through different demographic and clinical lenses ― race, gender, age, social connectedness, work history, and the most important through-line: education. Thus Case and Deaton connect the dots, literally, in the many charts that explain what factors are driving the Deaths of Despair."---Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi Blog

"The rise in premature deaths among working-class whites has become a national crisis, and the authors tie the problem to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and to a health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages to the wealthy.", Publishers Weekly

"I highly, highly recommend it."---Cardiff Garcia, NPR Planet Money’s The Indicator

"Gripping. . . . [Case and Deaton] do not merely rehearse decades of mortality and wage statistics. Rather, they seek to catalogue how an entire way of life first frayed and then fell apart over the past half-century, and the cruelty of an American meritocracy that heaps lavish rewards on the winners while increasingly leaving others to rot."---Joshua Chaffin, Financial Times

"A highly important book."---Arlie Russell Hochschild, New York Times Book Review

"Case and Deaton explain how every detail of this crisis unfolded, examining recent historical events and rightly placing much of the blame on the United States’ distinctive strain of capitalism, designed to protect and grow the assets of the wealthy few."---Keri Leigh Merrit, Common Dreams

Review

"This book will be an instant classic, applying high quality social science to an urgent national matter of life and death. In exploring the recent epidemic of 'deaths of despair,' the distinguished authors uncover an absorbing historical story that raises basic questions about the future of capitalism. It is hard to imagine a timelier―or in the end, more hopeful―book in this season of our national despair."―Robert D. Putnam, author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids

"In the face of a government that failed to protect ordinary working-class Americans from the greed-fueled opioid epidemic and a media that was slow to notice the problem, Anne Case and Angus Deaton are true sentinels. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism is an urgent and clarion call to rethink pain, inequality, justice, and the business of being human in America. This book explains America to itself. I underlined damn near every sentence."―Beth Macy, author of Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America

"In this superb book, Case and Deaton connect the dots to explain the dramatic rise of deaths of despair among working-class white Americans. Totally unexpectedly, they trace the root cause to an exorbitantly expensive health-care system that sucks―and wastes―billions of dollars and so much human talent away from improving lives."―Ezekiel J. Emanuel, University of Pennsylvania

"With stunning data analysis, close observation, and smoldering urgency, Case and Deaton show why mounting deaths of despair are not only a public health disaster but also an indictment of the metastasizing stratification that is undermining working-class America."―David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"This book explains so many of today's headlines with clear writing, sharp storytelling, and an almost symphonic use of research in economics, public health, and history. What it summons is a powerful analysis of who we are as Americans and what we have become as a country."―Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

"America is experiencing a catastrophe. Those without a college degree are not just being left behind; they are dying from deaths of despair. Case and Deaton brilliantly describe and dissect the causes and explain how we can return to a path of rising prosperity and health. All citizens―voters as well as politicians aspiring to office―should read and discuss this book."―Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England

"Deaths of despair among US whites with low education cannot be attributed to lack of access to health care or ignorance of healthy lifestyles. When two leading economists turn their attention to the social determinants of this modern epidemic, the result is brilliant."―Sir Michael G. Marmot, author of The Health Gap

About the Author

Anne Case is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University. Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in economics, is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University and Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. His books include The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Princeton). They live in Princeton, New Jersey.