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100 1  Deaton, Angus,|eauthor. 
245 10 Economics in America|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic 
       resource] :|ban immigrant economist explores the land of 
       inequality /|cAngus Deaton. 
264  1 Princeton :|bPrinceton University Press,|c[2024] 
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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    "In 1995, the editor of the newsletter for the Royal 
       Economic Society, who was a fan of Alistair Cooke's Letter
       from America on BBC Radio 4, suggested to Angus Deaton 
       that he write a Letter about economic events in America. 
       Twenty-five years later, Deaton, now a Nobel laureate and 
       one of the world's most respected economists, submitted 
       his fiftieth and final Letter from America. Over the years
       Deaton wrote about many topics, from the War on Terror to 
       healthcare to becoming a US citizen, all from the 
       perspective of a Scottish/British economist. In the 
       letters he writes about both the economics profession in 
       America as well as American society more generally. The 
       letters show how he admired many aspects of American life 
       while watching others with "fascinated horror." He wrote 
       about the positive and negative aspects of American 
       economics, including aspects that fostered and stifled new
       ideas. About American society, he "frequently wrote about 
       aspects of American inequality, not only in income and 
       wealth, but inequality across race and citizenship, and my
       evolving understanding that the American government, 
       unlike the British government, which my parents and I had 
       confidently looked to for protection, was frequently an 
       oppressor, more often redistributing up than down.""--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
520    "From the Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times
       -bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future 
       of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist's 
       craftWhen 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. Economics in America 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"--|cProvided
       by publisher. 
533    Electronic reproduction.|bPrinceton|cPrinceton University 
       Press|d2023|nAvailable via World Wide Web. 
650  0 Income distribution|zUnited States. 
650  0 Consumption (Economics)|zUnited States. 
650  0 Poverty|zUnited States. 
650  0 Capitalism|xSocial aspects|zUnited States. 
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