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Globalization and technical change are the guarantee of our future prosperity. And reversing on that will not only make things worse, but it will make things worse for a very large number of people around the world who have benefitted - people in China and India who have been dragged out of the most awful poverty.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Around Awful Been Change China China And India Dragged Future Globalization Guarantee India Large Large Number Make Most Number Only Our Out People Poverty Prosperity Technical Things Very Who Will World Worse

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Inequality is not the same thing as unfairness; and, to my mind, it is the latter that has incited so much political turmoil in the rich world today.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Inequality Latter Mind Much Political Rich Same Same Thing Thing Today Turmoil Unfairness World

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Broadly shared progress can be achieved with policies that are designed specifically to benefit consumers and workers. And such policies need not even include redistributive taxation, which many workers oppose. Rather, they can focus on ways to encourage competition and discourage rent-seeking.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Achieved Benefit Competition Consumers Designed Discourage Encourage Even Focus Include Many Need Oppose Policies Progress Rather Shared Specifically Taxation Ways Which Workers

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I feel passionately about measurement - about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in measurement, and indeed, how much politics is involved.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: About Difficult Feel How How Much Indeed Involved Measurement Much Passionately Politics Theory I Feel

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International cooperation is vital to keeping our globe safe, commerce flowing, and our planet habitable.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Commerce Cooperation Flowing Globe International International Cooperation Keeping Our Our Planet Planet Safe Vital

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In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Allies Ask Brought Help Needed Policemen Scotland Think Up

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It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Figure Hard Out Sometimes Things World

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I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Left-Wing Nut Pushing

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The call to rein in globalization reflects a belief that it has eliminated jobs in the West, sending them East and South. But the biggest threat to traditional jobs is not Chinese or Mexican; it is a robot.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Belief Biggest Call Chinese East Eliminated Globalization Jobs Mexican Reflects Rein Robot Sending South Them Threat Traditional West

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When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken down, we divide into factions, and those who are left behind become angry and disillusioned with a politics that no longer serves them.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: About Across Angry Become Behind Believe Broken Care Citizens Disillusioned Divide Down Elite Factions Insurance Left Longer More Ocean Politics Serve Than Them Those Tracks Train Who

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Economist

Born: October 19th, 1945

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