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A lot of our sources for income-inequality measures come from household surveys in which people report how much they earned in the last year, how much income they have, and so on. Those are not as well funded as they should be. We need to have those numbers.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Come Earned Household How How Much Income Last Last Year Lot Measures Much Need Numbers Our People Report Should Sources Surveys Those Well Which Year

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I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to practical problems that undermine any claims to statistical or epistemic superiority.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Ability Actual Any Argue Claims Credible Experiments Frequently Knowledge Methods More Other Practical Problems Produce Special Statistical Subject Superiority Than Undermine

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The absence of state capacity - that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted - is one of the major causes of poverty and deprivation around the world.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Absence Around Capacity Causes Countries Deprivation Granted Major People Poverty Rich Services State Take Take For Granted World

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The very wealthy have little need for state-provided education or health care... They have even less reason to support health insurance for everyone or to worry about the low quality of public schools that plagues much of the country.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: About Care Country Education Even Everyone Health Health Care Health Insurance Insurance Less Little Low Much Need Public Public Schools Quality Reason Schools Support Very Wealthy Worry

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What is not OK is for rent-seekers to get rich.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Get Ok Rich

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I, who do not believe in socialized health-care, would advocate a single-payment system... because it will get this monster that we've created out of the economy and allow the rest of capitalism to flourish without the awful things that healthcare is doing to us.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Advocate Allow Awful Because Believe Capitalism Created Doing Economy Flourish Get Healthcare Monster Out Rest System Things Us Who Will Without Would

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The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption - legal and illegal - and build fairer, more equal society without compromising innovation or entrepreneurship.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Build Capitalism Compromising Corruption Entrepreneurship Equal Fairer Find Illegal Innovation Key Legal More Society Somehow Tackling Way Without

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I don't think Brexit is going to help people in Britain.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Brexit Britain Going Help Help People People Think

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A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: America Europe Feel Governments Lot Much People Representing Them Very

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If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense, enormous sums of money to some of the richest people who have ever existed on Earth.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: About Earth Enormous Ever Existed Expense Gave Government Happened Money Our People Richest Situation Some Sums Think Those Which Who You

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Economist

Born: October 19th, 1945

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