Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
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Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
By (Author) Angus Deaton
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
3rd October 2023
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
339.220973
Physical Properties
Hardback
280
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
Description
From the Nobel Prizewinning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economists craft
When economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by Americas 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 timesfrom poverty, retirement, and the minimum wage to the ravages of the nations uniquely disastrous health care systemand narrates Deatons own account of his experiences as a naturalized US citizen and academic economist.
Deaton is witty and he pulls no punches. In this incisive, candid, and funny book, he describes the everyday lives of working economists, recounting the triumphs as well as the disasters, and tells the inside story of the Nobel Prize in economics and the journey that led him to Stockholm to receive one. He discusses the ongoing tensions between economics and politicsand the extent to which economics has any content beyond the political prejudices of economistsand reflects on whether economists bear at least some responsibility for the growing despair and rising populism in America.
Blending rare personal insights with illuminating perspectives on the social challenges that confront us today, Deaton offers a disarmingly frank critique of his own profession while shining a light on his adopted countrys policy accomplishments and failures.
Author Bio
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).
