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 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
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
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
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
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
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
As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The… — Angus Deaton Alone Copy Share Image
My work shows how important it is that independent researchers should have access to data so that government statistics can be checked… — Angus Deaton Data Copy Share Image
I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently… — Angus Deaton Ability Copy Share Image
It is true that globalization has fueled greater income inequality. But much of this increase should be welcomed, not condemned. There is… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent… — Angus Deaton Giving 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
