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Aid can only reach the victims of war by paying off the warlords and, sometimes, extending the war.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Aid Extending Off Only Paying Reach Sometimes Victims War

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Political and legal institutions play a central role in setting the environment that can nurture prosperity and economic growth.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Central Economic Economic Growth Environment Growth Institutions Legal Nurture Play Political Prosperity Role Setting

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I think there are a lot of policies that have been unfriendly to workers' wages.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Been Lot Policies Think Unfriendly Wages Workers I Think

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I'm in favor of inequality if it comes about from people making great innovations that make us all better off. And I think those people deserve to be rich. But the people who get rich by lobbying the Congress to give them special protections that come out of the hides of the workers seems to be a bad idea.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: About Bad Bad Idea Better Better Off Come Congress Deserve Favor Get Give Great Hides Idea Inequality Innovations Lobbying Make Making Off Out People Rich Seems Special Them Think Those Us Who Workers I Think

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People on left have to better understand what are the benefits of inequality, and people on right have to understand better what the dangers are... It has to become properly hardwired into the American democratic debate in a way that it hasn't really been.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: American Become Been Benefits Better Dangers Debate Democratic Inequality Left People Properly Really Right Understand Way

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If someone thinks of something, some new innovation that benefits us all, and the market works properly, they get richly rewarded for that, and that's just terrific, and that creates inequality.

~Angus Deaton

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I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such as ours.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: About Become Democracy Enormous Influence Money Ours Really Think Worry

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After a day's fishing, I'll know the solution to something or have good ideas that were not accessible before.

~Angus Deaton

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I've always - and not always happily - considered myself an outsider. Certainly at Fettes. And then the Scots are always outsiders in England. They are always putting you in your place in one way or another, and there is this pretty rigid class hierarchy.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Always Another Certainly Class Considered England Happily Hierarchy Myself One Way Outsider Outsiders Place Pretty Putting Rigid Then Way You Your

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I doubt that Donald Trump would be happier... if he was a different person. But Trump is always telling people how great his life is and about all the great things that he's done, and that's also all about his income. And that's also what we found. If you ask people how their lives are going, as a whole, it seems they tend to point to income.

~Angus Deaton

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Economist

Born: October 19th, 1945

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