Table of Contents:
- The calm before the storm
- Things come apart
- Deaths of despair
- The lives and deaths of the more (and less) educated
- Black and white deaths
- The condition of the living
- The misery and mystery of pain
- Suicide, drugs, and alcohol
- Opioids
- False trails : poverty, income, and the Great Recession
- Growing apart at work
- Widening gaps at home
- How American healthcare is undermining lives
- Capitalism, immigrants, robots, and China
- Firms, consumers, and workers
- What to do?
