Anne Case, “The Great Divide: Education, Despair & Death”

Presenter: Anne Case, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Emeritus at Princeton University

Anne Case, author of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, will give an account of how the flaws in capitalism are harming America’s working class. She will discuss the dramatic rise in deaths from opioid overdose, alcoholism, and suicide in recent decades and how the disparity between those who are prospering and those who are struggling continues to grow.