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One reason for declining life expectancy in America is what Anne Case and Nobel laureate economist Angus Deaton call deaths of despair, caused by alcohol, drug overdoses, and suicide.
When opportunity leaves economically marginal communities,
despair
and social dysfunction typically set in.
Nowadays, this access is far from assured in many countries, leading to widespread anxiety and
despair.
Yet the current decline is caused by despair, not by illness.
It’s time that economists, pundits, and politicians start looking holistically at life in our times, and take seriously the long-term structural changes needed to address the multiple crises of health care, despair, inequality, and stress in the US and many other countries.
As the Franco-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf has said, it is “better to err with hope, than to be right with despair.”
But, rather than succumb to
despair
or cynicism, Belarusians have refused to accept that there is no point in voting.
Any “recovery” based on such a formula will short-change almost all Europeans and push the majority into deeper
despair.
Leaders of the once-dominant parties oscillate between denial and despair, while populists siphon off their traditional supporters.
Ironically, both the Heritage Foundation and the Fraser Institute rank Hong Kong as having the most economic freedom in the entire world, yet Hong Kong residents
despair
of their freedom to choose what to do with their lives.
In all three countries, urban young people not born into wealth
despair
of their chances of finding affordable housing and a decent job.
As economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton show in their book Deaths of
Despair
and the Future of Capitalism, these pathologies have increasingly afflicted desperate, lower skilled, un- or under-employed whites – a cohort in which midlife mortality has been rising.
It is no secret that what is good for Wall Street is bad for Main Street, which is why major stock-market indices have reached new highs as the middle class has been hollowed out and fallen into deeper
despair.
Add to all this other persistent sources of global uncertainty – from the Middle East and Russia under President Vladimir Putin to social-media disruptions and antimicrobial resistance – and you have a recipe for
despair.
But places such as towns, cities, and regions will never disappear, even if they can and do fall into
despair.
But Europe’s global role will also be determined by how it deals with the COVID-19 crisis, and the pandemic is weakening its unity, almost to the point of
despair.
Regardless of who (if anybody) emerges on top, it is hard to believe that the socioeconomic
despair
caused by the pandemic will not prepare the ground for an even stronger nativist and xenophobic surge.
Seventy-five years ago, economies were shattered, millions had been turned into refugees, and
despair
abounded.
Would a farmer in the throes of existential
despair
find relief in a 500-rupee note?
He saw hopelessness and despair, then delivered more of it.
The domino effect will continue across many domains, from collapsing state and municipal tax revenues and business failures to impoverished communities, declining health outcomes, homelessness, and “deaths of despair.”
Anything would be better than continual shame, misery, infidelity!'With his heart full of
despair
and bitterness toward every one, toward himself and her, he left the hotel and went to her.
But in the corridor there was nobody, and in
despair
he returned and addressed Oblonsky, who was quietly smoking.
'And suppose the things have already gone to the station!' he exclaimed in
despair.
That is technique,' said Vronsky, addressing Golenishchev and alluding to a conversation they had had about Vronsky's
despair
of attaining technical mastery.
That feeling was now stronger even than before; he felt even less able than before to understand the meaning of death, and its inevitability appeared yet more terrible to him; but now, thanks to his wife's presence, that feeling did not drive him to despair; in spite of death, he felt the necessity of living and loving.
He felt that love had saved him from despair, and that that love under the menace of
despair
grew still stronger and purer.
In this he succeeded: no one could have observed in him any signs of
despair.
His
despair
was heightened by the consciousness that he was quite alone in his sorrow.
At that most painful time of lonely
despair
she came to his house and entered his study unannounced.
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