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Angus Deaton

Angus Deaton is the the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University and author of The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality.

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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

Forum Responses

Response: Response to Effective Altruism

Helping others is good, not least because of the happiness it brings to the giver. And it is hard not to admire Matt Wage, or Peter Singer. But why do the world’s...
Angus Deaton

Response: Making Aid Work — Forum Response

While skepticism about foreign aid used to be the preserve of the political right, it has now spread to some who clearly recognize the moral imperative of the world’s rich to help...
Angus Deaton

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