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, ...

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 ...

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US-British microeconomist Angus Deaton won the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for groundbreaking work using household surveys to show how consumers, particularly the poor, decide what to buy and how ...

Before the work of French economist Thomas Piketty transformed the U.S. political discussion on income inequality last year, Princeton economist Angus Deaton devised important new ways of measuring ...

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 ...

Sometimes simple statistical economic work can open our eyes to some fundamental changes in the economy. That was the case with landmark research undertaken by Nobel Prize winning economist Angus ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. British-born economist Angus Deaton won the 2015 economics Nobel Prize ...

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics (or, if you prefer, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) was awarded to Princeton’s Angus Deaton “for his analysis of ...

Princeton University professor Angus Deaton has won the 2015 Nobel Prize in economics for work on “consumption, poverty and welfare.” When Princeton University Professor Angus Deaton received a phone ...

Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in economic sciences, is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor Emeritus of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. His books include ...