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...Angus Deaton, legendary development economist and Nobel Prize winner in economics, has changed his mind on several issues including the merits of open trade and high immigration for the US....
...Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality by Angus Deaton (Princeton University Press) Deaton, winner of the Nobel memorial prize, is also an immigrant to the US....
...“Alan Krueger was among the best of them.” I was going to ask him about Krueger....
...Senior trade writer Alan Beattie called it one of the most ludicrous bits of policymaking of modern times....
...Natural by Alan Levinovitz (Profile RRP£20/Beacon RRP$28.95, April) upends that idea and calls the unthinking worship of nature “our oldest superstition”....
...Angus Deaton, Nobel laureate in economics, has found that we are too optimistic about our own futures: almost everywhere, people tend to feel that they will be living a strikingly better life in five years...
...opioid prescriptions from 1999 to 2015 may account for about a fifth of the decline in men’s labour force participation, a measure of those either in work or looking for a job, according to estimates from Alan...
...– Further watching with Angus Deaton on why middle class white men are dying at a faster rate....
...More than half of those are on prescription painkillers, according to Alan Krueger, a Princeton economist. Of these, two-thirds are on opioids....
...There were also knighthoods for Angus Deaton, the Princeton economist and Nobel Prize winner, and Roger Scruton, the conservative philosopher....
...Next week we’ll be back with a brand new episode featuring Angus Deaton, this year’s winner of the economics Nobel....
...Angus Deaton and Alan Heston give the example of a Thai farmer who lives on rice and an Ethopian who lives on teff: there is no basis for comparison as rice is hard to find in Ethopia, and teff isn’t available...
...Angus Deaton’s The Great Escape traces advances in wealth and health that offer hope of an exit from historic human inequality....
...Perhaps Barack Obama has been taking note: three leading happiness scholars, Betsey Stevenson, Kahneman’s co-author Alan Krueger and Cass Sunstein all have senior government positions....
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