Angus Deaton on the Financial Advantage of College Degrees

Masters in Business

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Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

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🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Angus Deaton, senior scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. In 1976, he became a professor of econometrics at the University of Bristol and moved to Princeton as a professor of economics and international affairs in 1983. He became an emeritus professor in 2016. In 2015, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is the author of almost 200 papers and six books, including The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality; Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality; and, with Anne Case, of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism.

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1:16.5	Deaton he won the Nobel Prize in 2015 for his work on consumption, poverty, welfare, wealth, and health inequality.
1:26.0	Really, the work he's done on inequality came after the Nobel Prize based on a book him and his wife put out in a number of papers, he wrote,
1:37.0	what can I say?
1:38.0	He is just so fascinating, such an interesting person.
1:43.0	Born in the UK, grows up in Scotland, becomes a professor in the UK and then says,
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