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...Elsewhere on Monday… — Tether, FTX, and Deltec Bank: Money time (Amy Castor and David Gerard) — Lending in the sponsor age (Lewis Enterprises) — The sweet science and the sovereign fund (The Baffler)...
...Some economists, including Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, argue that, as societies escape poverty, some people inevitably do better first....
...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....
...The book comes with endorsements from economists Thomas Piketty, Amartya Sen and Sir Angus Deaton. It comes alive with its proposals for workplace democracy....
...Finally an apology to Princeton University’s Anne Case, co-author with Sir Angus Deaton, and coiner of the term “deaths of despair”. I wrongly attributed that to Deaton in last week’s Swamp Notes....
...Case and Deaton have shown that it is killing people in the US through suicide, alcoholism and drug overdoses....
...David Cote, former chief executive of Honeywell, presents a grittier picture of the tests corporate leaders face in his Winning Now, Winning Later....
...Crow David is the FT’s US political news editor in New York....
...Economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case found in a powerful study that poor young Americans were dying from what they called “the diseases of despair”....
...In their book Deaths of Despair, Anne Case and Angus Deaton spelt out the toll this has taken on working-class white men in particular....
...The future of capitalism is also the subject of Anne Case and Angus Deaton’s book Deaths of Despair (Princeton RRP$27.95/£20, March), a chilling portrayal by two leading US economists of the decline of...
...That was the view of David Willetts — formerly UK minister for higher education — a few weeks ago....
...tim.harford@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Being happy with your lot is an invaluable trait / From Dick Sands, London, UK Richer nations just became accustomed to being lucky / From David...
...Economics Nobel laureate Angus Deaton says that millions of people in the US live at developing-world levels of extreme poverty....
...On Thursday, Goldman Sachs’s David Mericle, dug deeper into the ramifications of the opioid crisis for the American economy....
...David Torrance marks the moment by looking at the potential political consequences....
...Case-Deaton. – Is economic activity really “distributed less evenly” than it used to be? An attempt to actually define that question. – Justin Fox on the jobs stats that Trump should be worried about....
...– A conversation with Angus Deaton on whether it’s better to be poor in Bangladesh or the Mississippi delta? – Purple America has all but disappeared....
...This proposition, a long time goal of former prime minister David Cameron, was dropped by the previous government, but Britain’s Labour party has signalled it would continue to push for it....
...– Further watching with Angus Deaton on why middle class white men are dying at a faster rate....
...Angus Deaton, who won the Nobel Prize in economics and teaches at Princeton, says economics is a broad church, but one that needs to be kept rigorous....
...Following the revelations, a number of leading economists including Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, former IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard called for an end to tax havens, saying they “serve no useful...
...Mr Deaton remains a staunch defender of globalisation’s benefits....
...Their intervention comes as David Cameron struggles to build momentum for a deal on financial transparency at Thursday’s summit in the wake of the Panama Papers leak....
...Then we speak with the FT’s David Crow about the potential consequences if a merger between Pfizer and Allergan every becomes reality, plus he catches us up on the Valeant saga....
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