The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015
Awarded on: 2015-10-12
"for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare"
Affiliations:
- Princeton University – Princeton, NJ, USA
Angus Deaton
Born: 1945-10-19 in Edinburgh, Scotland
Gender: male
Field: British-American economist (born 1945)
Biography
Sir Angus Stewart Deaton is a British-American economist and academic. Deaton is currently 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.