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Americans, like many citizens of rich countries, take for granted the legal and regulatory system, the public schools, health care and social security for the elderly, roads, defense and diplomacy, and heavy investments by the state in research, particularly in medicine.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: American Care Citizens Countries Defense Diplomacy Elderly Granted Health Health Care Heavy Investments Legal Like Many Medicine Particularly Public Public Schools Regulatory Research Rich Roads Schools Security Social Social Security State System Take Take For Granted

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Without properly functioning civil courts, there is no guarantee that innovative entrepreneurs can claim the rewards of their ideas.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Civil Claim Courts Entrepreneurs Guarantee Ideas Innovative No Guarantee Properly Rewards Without

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The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent farms. And that's destroying their lives. So they don't see the government as something that's out there to help them.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Been Could Decent Destroying Farms Giving Government Grants Help History Land Lives Montana Out People Possibly See Something The History Of Them Turn

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The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Being Dying Going Heaven Like Nobel Thing While

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The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Hate Immigrants Met Never People Them Who

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I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: After Age Born Both Both My Parents Case Days Deep Edinburgh Education Effects End Father Few Had History Influencing Left Mathematics Me Measurement Mother Parents School Scotland Second Second World War Toward Very War World World War Writing Young Young Age I Was Born

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I didn't care for school much - it was very strict, corporal punishment in the form of the 'tawse' was common and unpredictable, and I was often afraid - but I believe that I did well enough; indeed, my mother always regretted that I had not stayed long enough to become the 'dux,' as the best pupil was called.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Afraid Always Become Believe Best Care Common Corporal Did Enough Form Had Indeed Long Mother Much Often Punishment Pupil Regretted School Stayed Strict Unpredictable Very Well Well Enough I Believe I Believe That

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The educational highlights I remember were not in the classroom. My father spent a lot of time with me when he could. He taught me how to take square roots, a skill I have retained but do not use often, except to check that I still remember.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Check Classroom Could Educational Except Father He Highlights How Lot Me Often Remember Roots Skill Spent Square Still Take Taught Time Use Were I Remember

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When I was a boy living in Edinburgh in Scotland, especially in December, when the hours of daylight were few, and it was cold, and often wet, I used to dream of escaping to a tropical magic kingdom.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Boy Cold Daylight December Dream Edinburgh Escaping Few Hours Kingdom Living Magic Often Scotland Tropical Used Were Wet

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I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Also Anne Case Collaborator Collaborators Fortune Good Good Fortune Great Life Work

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Economist

Born: October 19th, 1945

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