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

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

— Angus Deaton

The world is hugely unequal.

— 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

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

— Angus Deaton

A lot of people, including me, are worried that inequality will lead to bad things.

— Angus Deaton

Inequality is not the same thing as unfairness; and, to my mind, it is the latter that has incited so much political…

— 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

If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense,…

— 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

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

— Angus Deaton

Political and legal institutions play a central role in setting the environment that can nurture prosperity and economic growth.

— Angus Deaton

It's hard to know what's going to be replaced by technology tomorrow. It feels like we're all at risk. I feel only…

— 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

My work shows how important it is that independent researchers should have access to data so that government statistics can be checked…

— Angus Deaton

I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently…

— 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

Globalization and technical change are the guarantee of our future prosperity. And reversing on that will not only make things worse, but…

— Angus Deaton

Americans, like many citizens of rich countries, take for granted the legal and regulatory system, the public schools, health care and social…

— Angus Deaton

You can find episodes like the flu epidemic or war times when mortality rates go up, but sustained increases in mortality for…

— Angus Deaton

The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent…

— 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

I think there are a lot of policies that have been unfriendly to workers' wages.

— Angus Deaton

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

— Angus Deaton

I believe, as do most people, that we have an obligation to assist the truly destitute.

— Angus Deaton

There is much that remains mysterious about why some countries grow rapidly and some grow slowly.

— Angus Deaton

I don't think Brexit is going to help people in Britain.

— 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

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

— Angus Deaton

European countries give much larger shares of aid for poverty relief than the U.S.

— Angus Deaton

It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

— Angus Deaton

I don't think income solely determines health. I think lots of other things determine health.

— Angus Deaton

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

— Angus Deaton