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Many people have mixed views about unions, but unions used to give people some measure of control at work. They gave them a social life and political representation in Washington, which doesn't really exist anymore. Angus Deaton
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Political and legal institutions play a central role in setting the environment that can nurture prosperity and economic growth. Angus Deaton
Legal Prosperity Political Nurture Setting Economic Economic Growth Environment Institutions Role Central Play Growth
I think there are a lot of policies that have been unfriendly to workers' wages. Angus Deaton
Think Policies Wages Been Lot Unfriendly Workers
I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such as ours. Angus Deaton
Democracy Money Become Think Enormous Worry Ours About Influence Really
I've always - and not always happily - considered myself an outsider. Certainly at Fettes. And then the Scots are always outsiders in England. They are always putting you in your place in one way or another, and there is this pretty rigid class hierarchy. Angus Deaton
Myself You Class Considered Way Hierarchy Rigid Pretty One-Way Outsider Outsiders Putting Another Always Place Happily Then Your Certainly England
You can certainly draw a picture of 2016 which makes it look like the 1930s, which, of course, is what everyone is doing. Angus Deaton
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I do worry about a world in which the rich get to write the rules. Angus Deaton
World Rich Worry Rules About Write Get Which
Inequality is an enormously complicated thing that is both good and bad. Angus Deaton
Good Complicated Bad Both Inequality Good And Bad Thing
Globalisation, for me, seems to be not first-order harm, and I find it very hard not to think about the billion people who have been dragged out of poverty as a result. Angus Deaton
Me People Result Poverty Think Out Find About Seems Globalisation Been Very Hard Billion Who Dragged Harm
I both love inequality and am terrified of it. Angus Deaton
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Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty. Angus Deaton
Poverty Active States Citizens Abolish Global Involved Without Effective Little Working Growth Chance Needed
What is not OK is for rent-seekers to get rich. Angus Deaton
Rich OK Get
I, who do not believe in socialized health-care, would advocate a single-payment system... because it will get this monster that we've created out of the economy and allow the rest of capitalism to flourish without the awful things that healthcare is doing to us. Angus Deaton
Capitalism Will Rest Believe Monster System Out Would Allow Economy Because Without Advocate Healthcare Doing Get Us Created Who Socialized Awful Things Flourish
I don't think Brexit is going to help people in Britain. Angus Deaton
People Think Going Brexit Help Help People Britain
A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much. Angus Deaton
People Feel Lot Governments Very America Representing Them Much Europe
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. Angus Deaton
Government You People Money Situation Think Enormous Gave Our Earth Sums Those Some About Existed Expense Happened Which Richest Richest People Who Ever
We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric. Angus Deaton
Time Opportunities Tears Job Long Say Fabric Long Period Period Trying After Social Low Low-Income Social Fabric Income
My work on happiness is the only thing I've ever done where I've heard people in the supermarket talking about it, for instance. Angus Deaton
Happiness Work People About Supermarket Only Instance Talking Heard Done Where The Only Thing Ever Thing
I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time. Angus Deaton
Life Time People Money Enough Worry India Pretty About Cast Over Lot Up Africa Grew Poor Really Your Who Compared
You accumulate emotional wisdom as you get older. You know, when you're 25, you go on blind dates with people that, when you're 50, you know to stay away from. Angus Deaton
Wisdom You People Older Stay Dates Emotional Know Blind Go Accumulate Get Away
Parents tend to value their lives more highly than people without kids, but they're different in lots of ways: They're richer. They're better educated. They're healthier. Angus Deaton
People Better Value Parents Ways Kids More Tend Highly Without Healthier Educated Lots Than Different Richer Lives
People who have children, by and large, want children. People who don't want children are people who, by and large, don't want to have children. And why would you expect one set to be happier than another? Angus Deaton
You People Would Another Expect Than Children Want Happier Who Large Why Set
The world is hugely unequal. Angus Deaton
World Unequal Hugely
If poverty and underdevelopment are primarily consequences of poor institutions, then by weakening those institutions or stunting their development, large aid flows do exactly the opposite of what they are intended to do. Angus Deaton
Poverty Consequences Aid Those Weakening Exactly Primarily Development Institutions Opposite Intended Poor Then Large Flows
I think lower wages have made men much less marriageable than they were before. It's not just like your job goes to hell. Your marriage goes to hell. You don't know your children anymore. Your children have a higher chance of being screwed up. Angus Deaton
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I don't think equality is intrinsically valuable, meaning in and of itself. I'm not against inequality... if Bill Gates gets another hundred million dollars, it's no skin off my nose. Angus Deaton
Equality Valuable Skin Think Hundred Another Inequality Dollars Off Itself Gets Nose Against Meaning Bill Bill Gates Million Million Dollars Gates
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