{"id":8757,"date":"2020-01-21T18:55:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T17:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=8757"},"modified":"2020-01-21T18:56:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T17:56:31","slug":"8757","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=8757","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/grim-truth-about-trump-economy-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2020-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joseph Stiglitz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-line-id=\"66bb1cbc003943f7a688f92c935f1404\">One reason for declining life expectancy in America is what Anne Case and Nobel laureate economist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/columnist\/angus-deaton\">Angus Deaton<\/a>\u00a0call deaths of despair, caused by alcohol, drug overdoses, and suicide. In 2017 (the most recent year for which good data are available), such deaths stood at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/article-abstract\/2756187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">almost four times their 1999 level<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-line-id=\"0b9df8e264d047598f297bbc106af669\">The only time I have seen anything like these declines in health \u2013 outside of war or epidemics \u2013 was when I was chief economist of the World Bank and found out that mortality and morbidity data confirmed what our economic indicators suggested about the dismal state of the post-Soviet Russian economy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Stiglitz: One reason for declining life expectancy in America is what Anne Case and Nobel laureate economist\u00a0Angus Deaton\u00a0call deaths of despair, caused by alcohol, drug overdoses, and suicide. In 2017 (the most recent year for which good data are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=8757\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}