Angus Deaton

The world is hugely unequal.

— Angus Deaton

I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!

— Angus Deaton

Inequality is partly a marker of success.

— Angus Deaton

What is not OK is for rent-seekers to get rich.

— Angus Deaton

I both love inequality and am terrified of it.

— Angus Deaton

Businesses have moved from doing business to doing lobbying, and I think that's a very bad thing.

— Angus Deaton

I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.

— Angus Deaton

Growth does not bring any 'automatic' improvement in the health component of wellbeing.

— Angus Deaton

International cooperation is vital to keeping our globe safe, commerce flowing, and our planet habitable.

— Angus Deaton

I don't think that globalisation is anywhere near the threat that robots are.

— Angus Deaton

The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!

— Angus Deaton

I do worry about a world in which the rich get to write the rules.

— Angus Deaton

International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.

— Angus Deaton

If someone thinks of something, some new innovation that benefits us all, and the market works properly, they get richly rewarded for…

— Angus Deaton

There's this narrative that is entrenched in some of the professions that there's this mysterious thing called 'socioeconomic status' that is immutably…

— Angus Deaton

I'm very keen that we have this debate about the good parts of inequality and the bad parts of inequality. It's not…

— Angus Deaton

Despite broad public support, raising the minimum wage is always difficult owing to the disproportionate influence that wealthy firms and donors have…

— Angus Deaton

It's hard to think that Mark Zuckerberg is actually impoverishing anyone by getting rich with Facebook. But driverless cars are another matter…

— Angus Deaton

You accumulate emotional wisdom as you get older. You know, when you're 25, you go on blind dates with people that, when…

— Angus Deaton

Many people have mixed views about unions, but unions used to give people some measure of control at work. They gave them…

— Angus Deaton

If poverty and underdevelopment are primarily consequences of poor institutions, then by weakening those institutions or stunting their development, large aid flows…

— Angus Deaton

When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken…

— Angus Deaton

Europeans tend to feel more positively about their governments than do Americans, for whom the failures and unpopularity of their federal, state,…

— Angus Deaton

The best moments are when, together with... you bring information, you bring data to bear in a way that helps illuminate something…

— Angus Deaton

The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few…

— Angus Deaton

Trade, migration, and modern communications have given us networks of friends and associates in other countries. We owe them much, but the…

— Angus Deaton

I, who do not believe in socialized health-care, would advocate a single-payment system... because it will get this monster that we've created…

— Angus Deaton

People on left have to better understand what are the benefits of inequality, and people on right have to understand better what…

— Angus Deaton

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The…

— Angus Deaton

I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress.

— Angus Deaton

High quality, open, transparent, and uncensored data are needed to support democracy.

— Angus Deaton

Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.

— Angus Deaton

Success breeds inequality, and you don't want to choke off success.

— Angus Deaton

Aid can only reach the victims of war by paying off the warlords and, sometimes, extending the war.

— Angus Deaton

After a day's fishing, I'll know the solution to something or have good ideas that were not accessible before.

— Angus Deaton

In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.

— Angus Deaton

A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.

— Angus Deaton

“It can be bad if the winners try to stop others from following them, pulling up the ladders behind them.”

— Angus Deaton

“Life is a great escape from deprivation and early death.”

— Angus Deaton

In the high-income English-speaking world, the elderly get treated very well indeed.

— Angus Deaton