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The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to go to high school, and my father was not one of them. He spent much of his time as a young man repairing this deprivation, mostly at night school.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Allowed Children Deprivation Father Few Go Grew He High High School His Man Mining Mostly Much Night Only School Spent Them Time Up Village Which Yorkshire Young Young Man 1920S 1930S

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The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Across Adjust Bank Countries Differences Estimates Ignores Needs Poverty Prices World World Bank

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As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Alone Ancient Ancient Times Coexistence Even Happy Leads Neither Poor Possibilities Recognized Rich Rise Rule Since Times Two Up Very Wealth

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Many people have mixed views about unions, but unions used to give people some measure of control at work. They gave them a social life and political representation in Washington, which doesn't really exist anymore.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: About Anymore Control Exist Gave Give Life Many Measure Mixed People Political Really Representation Social Social Life Some Them Unions Used Views Washington Which Work

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Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Affects Aid Change Foreign Foreign Aid Function How Institutions Lot

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Inequality is partly a marker of success.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Inequality Partly Success

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I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: About How Indicator Mortality Progress Societal Wonderful Written

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Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Abolish Active Chance Citizens Effective Global Growth Involved Little Needed Poverty States Without Working

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In the high-income English-speaking world, the elderly get treated very well indeed.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Elderly English-Speaking Get Indeed Treated Very Well World

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Businesses have moved from doing business to doing lobbying, and I think that's a very bad thing.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Bad Bad Thing Business Businesses Doing Lobbying Moved Thing Think Very I Think

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Economist

Born: October 19th, 1945

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