Angus Deaton

Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in economic sciences, is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor Emeritus of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. His books include Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality and Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism.

How Misreading Adam Smith Helped Spawn Deaths of Despair

A Nobel Prize–winning economist reflects on the dire consequences of libertarian economics.

  • Angus Deaton

Deaths of Despair

Boston Review talks with Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton about COVID-19, the relationship between culture, financial hardship, and health, and why capitalism’s flaws are proving fatal for America’s working class. 

  • Joshua Cohen
  • Angus Deaton

Response to Effective Altruism

In Rwanda, the utilitarian calculus is used against the people.

  • Angus Deaton

Making Aid Work — Forum Response

Evidence-based aid must not become the latest in a long string of development fads.

  • Angus Deaton
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