Economist Angus Deaton was born and educated in Britain and moved to the United States in 1983. His major claim to fame is winning the Nobel Economics Prize in 2015. What I've liked most about his work over the years is that he clearly marches to his own drummer. In 1998, he started writing short pieces on America's economy, American economic policy, and economic thinking in general. Now he's put many of those pieces together in Economics in America, which his subtitle brands "the land of inequality." (The? As if there's only one?) The title itself gives away much of his thinking. He believes that American economists have not sufficiently explored inequality and that U.S. economic policy pays too little attention to reducing this inequality.
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