British - Economist | October 19, 1945 -
Europeans tend to feel more positively about their governments than do Americans, for whom the failures and unpopularity of their federal, state, and local politicians are a commonplace. Yet Americans' various governments collect taxes and, in return, provide services without which they could not easily live their lives.
Angus Deaton
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In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.
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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.
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Without properly functioning civil courts, there is no guarantee that innovative entrepreneurs can claim the rewards of their ideas.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.
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The best moments are when, together with... you bring information, you bring data to bear in a way that helps illuminate something that you just don't really understand. Even if it doesn't completely clarify it, it just, you know, helps bring it together.
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I don't think income solely determines health. I think lots of other things determine health.
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