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Stanford
Department of Philosophy
School of Humanities and Sciences
Major Lectures
Ethics in Society

2019 Tanner Lecture by Angus Deaton: "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism"

2019 Tanner Lecture by Angus Deaton: "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism"
Date
Thu April 11th 2019, 5:00 - 7:00pm
Event Sponsor
McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society and the Office of the President
Location
Encina Hall, Bechtel Conference Center

 

Speaker

Anne Case

 

This is the second of three events comprising the 2019 Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered by  Princeton University Professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton.

Lecture 1: Wednesday, April 10, 5 to 7 p.m.

Lecture 2: Thursday, April 11, 5 to 7 p.m.

Discussion seminar: Friday, April 12, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Lecture 2:"Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism"

Sir Angus Deaton, a senior scholar at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, will examine the wider social and economic forces that surround the epidemic of deaths from drug overdoses, alcoholic liver disease, and suicide. In addition to elevated death rates, those affected by the epidemic often experience increased morbidity and social isolation, as well as decreased marriage rates, religious involvement, democratic participation, wages, and labor participation.

This lecture will be followed by a response from Victor Fuchs, the Henry J. Kaiser Jr Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, in the Departments of Economics and Health Research and Policy.