Growth does not bring any 'automatic' improvement in the health component of wellbeing. — Angus Deaton Growth Copy Share Image
I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life. — Angus Deaton Fortune Copy Share Image
I don't think that globalisation is anywhere near the threat that robots are. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them! — Angus Deaton Hate Copy Share Image
International cooperation is vital to keeping our globe safe, commerce flowing, and our planet habitable. — Angus Deaton Business Copy Share Image
International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor. — Angus Deaton Development aid Copy Share Image
Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
I feel passionately about measurement - about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in measurement, and… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Inequality is not so much a cause of economic, political, and social processes as a consequence. Some of these processes are good,… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
A good theoretical account must explain all of the evidence that we see. If it doesn't work everywhere, we have no idea… — Angus Deaton Chaos Copy Share Image
I don't think equality is intrinsically valuable, meaning in and of itself. I'm not against inequality... if Bill Gates gets another hundred… — Angus Deaton Equality Copy Share Image
Policies aimed at reversing globalization will lead only to a decrease in real income as goods become more expensive. — Angus Deaton Globalization Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
China and India are the success stories; rapid growth in large countries is an engine that can make a colossal dent in… — Angus Deaton China Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Although globalization and technological change have disrupted traditional work arrangements, both processes have the potential to benefit everyone. The fact that they… — Angus Deaton Change Copy Share Image
I've always - and not always happily - considered myself an outsider. Certainly at Fettes. And then the Scots are always outsiders… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Like many in academia and in the development industry, I am among globalization's greatest beneficiaries - those who are able to sell… — Angus Deaton Academia Copy Share Image
The very wealthy have little need for state-provided education or health care... They have even less reason to support health insurance for… — Angus Deaton Education Copy Share Image
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 Chance Copy Share Image
I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had… — Angus Deaton Age Copy Share Image
The educational highlights I remember were not in the classroom. My father spent a lot of time with me when he could.… — Angus Deaton Education Copy Share Image
A lot of our sources for income-inequality measures come from household surveys in which people report how much they earned in the… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
High quality, open, transparent, and uncensored data are needed to support democracy. — Angus Deaton Data Copy Share Image
I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress. — Angus Deaton Death Copy Share Image
Aid can only reach the victims of war by paying off the warlords and, sometimes, extending the war. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
You can certainly draw a picture of 2016 which makes it look like the 1930s, which, of course, is what everyone is doing. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global… — Angus Deaton Chance Copy Share Image
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 Health Copy Share Image
If someone thinks of something, some new innovation that benefits us all, and the market works properly, they get richly rewarded for… — Angus Deaton Inequality Copy Share Image
Despite broad public support, raising the minimum wage is always difficult owing to the disproportionate influence that wealthy firms and donors have… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If poverty and underdevelopment are primarily consequences of poor institutions, then by weakening those institutions or stunting their development, large aid flows… — Angus Deaton Consequences Copy Share Image
Many people have mixed views about unions, but unions used to give people some measure of control at work. They gave them… — Angus Deaton Control Copy Share Image
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 Facebook Copy Share Image
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 Blind Copy Share Image
The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
People who have children, by and large, want children. People who don't want children are people who, by and large, don't want… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
