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100 1  Deaton, Angus,|eauthor. 
245 10 Economics in America :|ban immigrant economist explores 
       the land of inequality /|cAngus Deaton. 
264  1 Princeton :|bPrinceton University Press,|c[2023] 
300    xiii, 271 pages ;|c23 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Beginnings: fast food restaurants, gangsters, and the 
       minimum wage -- Adventures in American healthcare -- 
       Poverty at home and poverty abroad -- The politics of 
       numbers: fixing the price? -- Material inequality -- 
       Inequalities beyond money -- Retirement,pensions and the 
       stock market -- Economists at work -- Nobel prizes and 
       Nobel Laureates -- Did economists break the economy? -- 
       Finale: Is economic failure a failure of economics? 
520    When economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United 
       States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by 
       America's strengths and shocked by the extraordinary gaps 
       he witnessed between people. This book explains in clear 
       terms how the field of economics addresses the most 
       pressing issues of our times-from poverty, retirement, and
       the minimum wage to the ravages of the nation's uniquely 
       disastrous health care system-and narrates Deaton's own 
       account of his experiences as a naturalized US citizen and
       academic economist.Deaton is witty and he pulls no 
       punches. In this incisive, candid, and funny book, he 
       describes the everyday lives of working economists, 
       recounting the triumphs as well as the disasters, and 
       tells the inside story of the Nobel Prize in economics and
       the journey that led him to Stockholm to receive one. He 
       discusses the ongoing tensions between economics and 
       politics-and the extent to which economics has any content
       beyond the political prejudices of economists-and reflects
       on whether economists bear at least some responsibility 
       for the growing despair and rising populism in 
       America.Blending rare personal insights with illuminating 
       perspectives on the social challenges that confront us 
       today, Deaton offers a disarmingly frank critique of his 
       own profession while shining a light on his adopted 
       country's policy accomplishments and failures. 
650  0 Income distribution|zUnited States. 
650  0 Consumption (Economics)|zUnited States. 
650  0 Poverty|zUnited States. 
650  0 Capitalism|xSocial aspects|zUnited States. 
650  7 Capitalism|xSocial aspects.|2fast 
650  7 Consumption (Economics)|2fast 
650  7 Income distribution.|2fast 
650  7 Poverty.|2fast