The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption - legal and illegal - and build… — Angus Deaton Capitalism Copy Share Image
We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social… — Angus Deaton Job Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Those of us who were lucky enough to be born in the right countries have a moral obligation to reduce poverty and… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
When I was a boy living in Edinburgh in Scotland, especially in December, when the hours of daylight were few, and it… — Angus Deaton Cold Copy Share Image
I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
The absence of state capacity - that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted -… — Angus Deaton Absence Copy Share Image
The globalization that has rescued so many in poor countries has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated… — Angus Deaton Globalization Copy Share Image
I didn't care for school much - it was very strict, corporal punishment in the form of the 'tawse' was common and… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Globalization obviously has the potential to be good. That doesn't mean it's good for everybody. There's a very large number of people… — Angus Deaton America Copy Share Image
I'm in favor of inequality if it comes about from people making great innovations that make us all better off. And I… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Broadly shared progress can be achieved with policies that are designed specifically to benefit consumers and workers. And such policies need not… — Angus Deaton Competition Copy Share Image
I doubt that Donald Trump would be happier... if he was a different person. But Trump is always telling people how great… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Europeans tend to feel more positively about their governments than do Americans, for whom the failures and unpopularity of their federal, state,… — Angus Deaton Failure Copy Share Image
The best moments are when, together with... you bring information, you bring data to bear in a way that helps illuminate something… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such… — Angus Deaton Democracy Copy Share Image
The first thing we need to understand when we think about globalization is that it has benefited an enormous number of people… — Angus Deaton Elite Copy Share Image
The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few… — Angus Deaton Children Copy Share Image
People on left have to better understand what are the benefits of inequality, and people on right have to understand better what… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Trade, migration, and modern communications have given us networks of friends and associates in other countries. We owe them much, but the… — Angus Deaton Communication Copy Share Image
