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

It is true that globalization has fueled greater income inequality. But much of this increase should be welcomed, not condemned. There is…

— Angus Deaton

Globalisation, for me, seems to be not first-order harm, and I find it very hard not to think about the billion people…

— Angus Deaton

I think lower wages have made men much less marriageable than they were before. It's not just like your job goes to…

— Angus Deaton

The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption - legal and illegal - and build…

— 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

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

— 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

The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs.

— Angus Deaton

My work on happiness is the only thing I've ever done where I've heard people in the supermarket talking about it, for…

— Angus Deaton

Without properly functioning civil courts, there is no guarantee that innovative entrepreneurs can claim the rewards of their ideas.

— 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

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

— Angus Deaton

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

— Angus Deaton

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

— Angus Deaton

Parents tend to value their lives more highly than people without kids, but they're different in lots of ways: They're richer. They're…

— Angus Deaton

Inequality is an enormously complicated thing that is both good and bad.

— Angus Deaton

The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.

— Angus Deaton

I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.

— Angus Deaton

We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social…

— Angus Deaton

I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had…

— Angus Deaton

Economic growth is very important, but it is not the only thing, and it must be accompanied by sharing with those who…

— Angus Deaton

The call to rein in globalization reflects a belief that it has eliminated jobs in the West, sending them East and South.…

— Angus Deaton

Those of us who were lucky enough to be born in the right countries have a moral obligation to reduce poverty and…

— Angus Deaton

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

— Angus Deaton