A lot of our sources for income-inequality measures come from household surveys in which people report how much they earned in the last year, how much income they have, and so on. Those are not as well funded as they should be. We need to have those numbers.
More Quotes by Angus Deaton
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.
Political and legal institutions play a central role in setting the environment that can nurture prosperity and economic growth.
The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption - legal and illegal - and build fairer, more equal society without compromising innovation or entrepreneurship.
International cooperation is vital to keeping our globe safe, commerce flowing, and our planet habitable.
I don't think that globalisation is anywhere near the threat that robots are.
The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!