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Angus Deaton
Sir Angus Stewart Deaton is a British-American economist and academic. Deaton is a Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. His research focuses primarily on poverty, inequality, health, wellbeing, and economic development.
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Born 19 October 1945 · Q204078
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 2 entries
Bloomberg L.P.: Masters in Business: Angus Deaton
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Deaton wrote about having changed his mind on a large part of the mainstream economics he had previously supported, concluding that economists' mistakes showed how "Economists could benefit by greater engagement with the
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2023· 1 entry
Boston Review: Angus Deaton
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2019· 1 entry
Published “2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of chronic coronary syndromes” in European Heart Journal — cited 6,029 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Entitled Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st Century
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2016· 2 entries
Deaton became a Senior Scholar and Emeritus Professor
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Published “2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice” in European Heart Journal — cited 5,669 times.
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2015· 8 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences — for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.
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Wall Street Journal: Nobel Prize Winner Angus Deaton Says There Are Discrepancies in India’s Economic Data
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Digital Journal: Poverty expert Angus Deaton wins Nobel Economics Prize
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Awarded Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2015).
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Awarded Cozzarelli Prize (2015).
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Anne Case and Angus Deaton published the paper "Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Deaton won that year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
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Was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought (2014).
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2011).
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2010).
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2008· 1 entry
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the British Academy (2001).
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1983· 2 entries
Career landmark: professor emeritus (1983).
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Left the University of Bristol for Princeton University
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1980· 1 entry
His paper on how demand for various consumption goods depends on prices and income was published in The American Economic Review
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1978· 3 entries
Won Frisch Medal for The Analysis of Consumer Demand in the United Kingdom, 1900-1970 (1978).
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Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society (1978).
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Became the first ever recipient of the Frisch Medal, an award given by the Econometric Society every two years to an applied paper published within the past five years in Econometrica
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1976· 1 entry
Deaton took up a post at the University of Bristol as Professor of Econometrics
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1975· 1 entry
Studied at University of Cambridge, doctorate (1975).
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1970· 1 entry
Previously widowed, Deaton has two children, born in 1970 and 1971.
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1945· 1 entry
Born 1945-10-19.
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