Yes, let's get the standard complaint out of the way at once: this is the Swedish Central Bank prize in memory of Alfred Nobel, not one of the five original prizes set up in Nobel's will. And let us ...

Angus Deaton was, as we all now know, awarded the Economics Nobel yesterday. Much of his work has been on the careful measurement of the consumption of the poor: exactly the sort of empirical data we ...

Sir Angus Deaton is Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School where he taught for thirty ...

Back in the late nineteen-nineties, I was working on a piece about the stock market and consumer spending, both of which were surging. Looking for a respected economist to provide a pithy quote ...

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STOCKHOLM (CBSNewYork/AP)-- Princeton University's Angus Deaton won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for his wide-ranging work on consumption that's helped redefine the way poverty is measured ...

In October 2015, Princeton economist Angus Deaton got an early-morning call from Sweden that most scholars can only dream of. Groggy and bleary-eyed, Deaton learned that he had won the Nobel Prize in ...

Princeton University’s Angus Deaton won the Nobel Prize in economics Monday for work that’s helped redefine the way poverty is measured around the world, notably in India. Deaton, 69, won about ...

There were 158,000 “deaths of despair” in the US in 2018. Think of it as three fully loaded Boeing 737 MAX jets falling out of the sky every day for a year. In their new book, “Deaths of Despair and ...

America is trying to come to terms with its economic inequality. Does inequality spur growth or kill it? Is it a necessary evil—or necessarily bad? Angus Deaton, an economics professor at Princeton, ...

Trump’s Reversal of Biden-Era Land Rule Is a Warning to China Audio By Carbonatix The Democratic presidential debate ironically took place the same week that a Princeton University professor was ...

Recent and archived work by Angus Deaton for The New York Times There are two Americas, and they are divided by a college degree. By Anne Case and Angus Deaton Evan Osnos’s “Wildland” and Alec Ross’s ...