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How do we judge the health of our economic systems? HARDtalk\\u2019s Stephen Sackur speaks to the Nobel Prize winning economist Sir Angus Deaton who believes it\\u2019s about much more than the headline numbers on jobs and growth. He has focused on what he calls the deaths of despair \\u2013 those attributed to suicide, drug and alcohol abuse \\u2013 and concludes American capitalism is sick. Now, of course, coronavirus is having its own impact on mortality data. Does capitalism itself need emergency surgery?

Photo: 2015 Nobel Prize winner in Economics Angus Deaton Credit: AFP