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Angus Deaton
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Angus Deaton is a British and American economist, university teacher, and writer born in Edinburgh in 1945. He holds a doctorate from the University of Cambridge, where he was educated at Fitzwilliam College, and previously attended Fettes College. His academic career includes positions at Princeton University, the University of Bristol, and the University of Southern California. At Princeton, he has served as a professor emeritus and chairperson. His fields of work include microeconomics, economics, poverty, and distributive justice.
Deaton has received several major honors, including the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, the Frisch Medal, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, and the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor. His doctoral advisor was Richard Stone.
Among his published works are *Understanding Consumption*, *Essays in the theory and measurement of consumer behaviour*, *Global patterns of income and health*, and *Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis*. He is married to Anne Case.
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- Born
- 1945
- Works
- 59
Top works
- Guidelines for Constructing Consumption Aggregates for Welfare Analysis
- Essays in the theory and measurement of consumer behaviour
- Global patterns of income and health
- PS Quarterly
- Understanding Consumption
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2015
“for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Edinburgh
- Spouse
- Anne Case
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- professor emeritus
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Noble title
- Knight Bachelor
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Doctoral advisor
- Richard Stone
- Official website
- scholar.princeton.edu/deaton
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- Angus Deaton 0244.jpg
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- 1945-00-00
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- Econometric Society
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- Princeton University Press
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- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
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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