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Nobel Prize-winning economist - Sir Angus Deaton

Nobel Prize-winning economist - Sir Angus Deaton

What can Western democracies do to tame capitalism and reduce its worst effects?

The Interview · BBC World Service

July 15, 201922m 59s

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Show Notes

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?

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