Angus Deaton
The Navigator
Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.
Angus Deaton reads as The Navigator because he charts course through contradictory data, exposing how GDP growth can mask mass mortality and social fracture. His push to move economics beyond monetary metrics carries a navigator's discipline, refusing false bearings and recalibrating toward harder, truer signals. The education-divide diagnosis he offers is not ideological posturing but a precise fix on where the ship is actually heading, and why the official charts mislead.
“This distinction that is so important here between people who have a four year college degree and people who do not — that inequality is threatening to bring us down. I think that's the most serious.”
“The American economy, just in terms of money, doing so much better than the European countries. But we're dying in drops, the bodies are piling up in the street. In what sense can you say we're doing well?”
“Economists have been focused on money or the amount of money that people spend, and I think economists just have to get much broader about what they think about.”
Masters in Business: “Angus Deaton on the Financial Advantage of College Degrees”
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