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Angus Deaton Quotes

British - Economist | October 19, 1945 -

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.

Father Children Time Man School

There's this narrative that is entrenched in some of the professions that there's this mysterious thing called 'socioeconomic status' that is immutably correlated with health. And it isn't.

Health Mysterious Status Narrative

I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!

Pushing Left-Wing Nut

I believe, as do most people, that we have an obligation to assist the truly destitute.

People Believe I Believe Obligation

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.

Alone Happy Rich Possibilities Rise

Those of us who were lucky enough to be born in the right countries have a moral obligation to reduce poverty and ill health in the world.

Health World Enough Poverty Born Us

I don't think that globalisation is anywhere near the threat that robots are.

Think Robots Threat Globalisation

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

Life Time Money People Worry Enough

Globalization obviously has the potential to be good. That doesn't mean it's good for everybody. There's a very large number of people in India and China who benefited directly from globalization, but it doesn't mean everybody in America benefits from globalization.

Good People Potential America India

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

Business Think Doing Bad Lobbying

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

Good Day Fishing Ideas Solution

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

World Poverty Differences Bank Needs

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