If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense, enormous sums of money to some of the richest people who have ever existed on Earth.

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!