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Sir Angus Deaton is now a Senior Scholar at Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs, where his main interests are in economic policy, as well as in poverty, inequality, health, development, well-being, and the use of evidence in social science and medicine. He also has a part-time appointment as Presidential Scholar in Residence at the University of Southern California. He has taught at Cambridge University and at the University of Bristol. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, and was the first recipient of the Society's Frisch Medal for Applied Econometrics. His current work is about rethinking economics, especially in the light of rising mortality among worrking class Americans. He was President of the American Economic Association in 2009. Ph.D. Cambridge University. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, University College, London, the University of St Andrews, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Cyprus, Brown University, and the University of Cambridge. He was the recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2015. In 2016, he was made a Knight Bachelor for his services to economics and international affairs.
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The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story

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    • Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
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    • An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
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