Angus Deaton

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015 was awarded to economist Angus Deaton “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”.

Deaton, 69, was born in Edinburgh but now works at Princeton University in New Jersey and he holds both U.S. and British citizenship.

If I lived in a ?normal? country, I would have devoted this column to Angus Deaton, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics on Oct. 12. But I don?t, and so I need to cover the ?normally boring? Medium-Term Economic Program (MTEP), which was published in the Official Gazette on Oct. 11, instead.

* Angus Deaton, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, is the 2015 Nobel laureate in economics. He is the author of The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Monday that Princeton University professor Angus Deaton has won the 2015 Nobel prize in economic sciences.

Deaton, 69, has been awarded the prize for "his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare", the Academy said.

British economist Angus Deaton won the 2015 economics Nobel Prize for "his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Oct. 12.