Angus Deaton
Economist and Nobel laureate
Sir Angus Deaton is a British-American economist who won the 2015 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He studies poverty, inequality, health and development.
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Born 1945 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
About Angus Deaton
Angus Deaton was born in Edinburgh on 19 October 1945 and is a British-American economist. He is a Senior Scholar and professor emeritus at Princeton University, and he has also taught at Cambridge and Bristol. In 2015 he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for work on consumption, poverty and welfare, and in 2016 he was knighted for services to economics and international affairs. In 2009 he led the American Economic Association as its president, and he was the first recipient of the Econometric Society's Frisch Medal for Applied Econometrics. He has also written The Analysis of Household Surveys and Economics and Consumer Behaviour. The BookBits catalog includes his book The Great Escape.