2020 Alice P. Lin Memorial Lecture with Anne Case, Ph.D.
Reception: 6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Lecture & Discussion: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public | CE Hours Available* | Livestream Available | Registration Required
* Notes:
- If you don’t need CE hours, the event is Free.
- Practicing social workers are eligible to earn 2 CE hours for a fee of $50.
- Fee waived for all CSSW Alumni! Current Field Instructors receive $10 off!
- For more information on how to obtain CE discounts and on CE learning objectives, please visit the registration page.
- You can also earn CE hours if you attend the event via Livestream. The Livestream link will also be posted on the registration page.
About the Event
Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row—a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In the past two decades, deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism have risen dramatically, and now claim hundreds of thousands of American lives each year—and they’re still rising. Drawing from her new book coauthored with Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism.
About the Author
Anne Case is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University. Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in economics, is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University and Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. His books include The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Princeton). They live in Princeton, New Jersey.