Nobel Prize-winning economist - Sir Angus Deaton
What can Western democracies do to tame capitalism and reduce its worst effects? Stephen Sackur interviews Nobel Prize-winning economist and academic Sir Angus Deaton.
Stephen Sackur interviews Sir Angus Deaton, a British-American economist and academic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (2015) for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare. He has just launched the Deaton Review with the Institute for Fiscal Studies; a five-year academic investigation into inequalities in the UK, the largest ever conducted. What can Western democracies do to tame capitalism and reduce its worst effects?
Image: Sir Angus Deaton (Credit: Oscar Gonzalez/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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- Mon 15 Jul 201902:06GMTBBC World Service Online, Europe and the Middle East & West and Central Africa only
- Mon 15 Jul 201903:06GMTBBC World Service UK DAB/Freeview
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