The 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics
Abstract
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Swedish National Bank Prize for Excellence in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Angus Deaton for his "analysis of consumption, poverty and welfare". Angus Deaton was a British and American citizen, born in 1945 in Edinburgh, UK. He received his PhD in 1975 from Cambridge University in the field of consumer demand patterns in Britain.
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