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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.

Articles

The anti-regulatory ethos of libertarian economics has dire consequences.

Angus Deaton
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

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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
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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