Perhaps it is because Angus Deaton is a child of meritocracy, the son of a modest Scottish family, that he is so attentive to the dramatic breakdowns of the social elevator in his adopted country.
He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2015, when he published with Anne Case, his wife, also an economist at Princeton University, a disturbing study on the decline in life expectancy in the United States, for the first time in over a century.
To this first observation was added another, even more confusing.
The rise in deaths was among whites with no higher education.
The scoops of this book are now stale.
The two indicators of the crisis of the American model have become a cliché known to all.
But the investigation retains an interest, at a time when "visible minorities" are asserting themselves in the United States with more and more radicalism.
The invisible majority, white, since it must be given a default color, continues to slide into the
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