Opinion: Empathy, community are weapons against 'deaths of despair'
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As part of Suicide Prevention Month, let us remember that honoring our community connections is both prevention and timely intervention.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015 was awarded to Angus Deaton "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare"
Downward mobility plus racial resentment is a potent combination with disastrous consequences.
Overall, U.S. life expectancy dipped in 2015 — the first drop since 1993. That's because the death rate went up between 2014 and 2015, driven by an increase in mortality among people younger than 65.
In her recent book, the sociologist Elizabeth Popp Berman says economists have too much influence.