The Navigator
Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.
Angus Deaton reads as The Navigator because he charts course through contradictory data, exposing how GDP growth can mask mass mortality and social fracture. His push to move economics beyond monetary metrics carries a navigator's discipline, refusing false bearings and recalibrating toward harder, truer signals.
“No, it's very much a UK thing, and it goes with not just the UK, but the European thing. And like when the Tocaville came here, you know, there were none of those kings or dukes or all the rest of it. And that was a big difference. And that made them very unequal. Compared with here, so America at its founding was a very equal place.”
“Well, I was always interested in a wide range of things. So when I was at this very fancy private school that I was at as a kid, I did math because it gave me a huge amount of free time to do the things I really cared about, like reading books and playing the pipe organ and playing rugby and sports and things.”
“Absolutely. And that's not happened in Britain and it hasn't happened in other European countries and it hasn't happened in Canada. It's just specific to my specific to the United States. And we could talk about some of the reasons for that.”
“How do you look at this? The mess that's happening in Israel and Gaza is something very different, I think, and huge. And it's affecting all parts of American society in ways that we really have not seen before. But there's a sort of separate issue of sort of political correctness within American universities.”
Masters in Business: “Angus Deaton on the Financial Advantage of College Degrees”
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