When economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by America鈥檚 strengths and shocked by the extraordinary gaps he witnessed between people. Economics in America explains in clear terms how the field of economics addresses the most pressing issues of our time鈥攆rom poverty, retirement, and the minimum wage to the ravages of the nation鈥檚 uniquely disastrous health care system鈥攁nd narrates Deaton鈥檚 account of his experiences as a naturalized US citizen and academic economist.
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Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in economics, is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus and Senior Scholar at Princeton University. He is the author (with Anne Case) of the New York Times bestselling book Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (Princeton).
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