Angus Deaton
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Angus Deaton is a British economist born in 1945 who specializes in microeconomics, the study of how individual consumers and households make economic decisions. His work matters because it has significantly influenced how economists understand poverty, inequality, and consumer behavior in the real world.
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Sir Angus Stewart Deaton FBA (born 19 October 1945) is a British-American economist and academic. Deaton is a Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus (since 2016) at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. His research focuses primarily on poverty, inequality, health, wellbeing, and economic development.
In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.
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