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The absence of state capacity - that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted - is one of the major causes of poverty and deprivation around the world. (Angus Deaton)
Inequality is not so much a cause of economic, political, and social processes as a consequence. Some of these processes are good, some are bad, and some are very bad indeed. View quote
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Globalization and technical change are the guarantee of our future prosperity. And reversing on that will not only make things worse, but it will make things worse for a very large number of people around the world who have benefitted - people in China and India who have been dragged out of the most awful poverty. View quote
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I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time. View quote
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The globalization that has rescued so many in poor countries has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated to where labor is cheaper. View quote
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The world is hugely unequal. View quote
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My work on happiness is the only thing I've ever done where I've heard people in the supermarket talking about it, for instance. View quote
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If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense, enormous sums of money to some of the richest people who have ever existed on Earth. View quote
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The first thing we need to understand when we think about globalization is that it has benefited an enormous number of people who are not part of the global elite. View quote
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Inequality is an enormously complicated thing that is both good and bad. View quote
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European countries give much larger shares of aid for poverty relief than the U.S. (Angus Deaton)
I both love inequality and am terrified of it. View quote
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People on left have to better understand what are the benefits of inequality, and people on right have to understand better what the dangers are... It has to become properly hardwired into the American democratic debate in a way that it hasn't really been. View quote
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In the high-income English-speaking world, the elderly get treated very well indeed. View quote
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China and India are the success stories; rapid growth in large countries is an engine that can make a colossal dent in world poverty. View quote
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I'm very keen that we have this debate about the good parts of inequality and the bad parts of inequality. It's not a one-sided thing. View quote
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In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it. View quote
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I do worry about a world in which the rich get to write the rules. View quote
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International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor. View quote
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The call to rein in globalization reflects a belief that it has eliminated jobs in the West, sending them East and South. But the biggest threat to traditional jobs is not Chinese or Mexican; it is a robot. View quote
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Angus Deaton

Angus Deaton - Image
Photo: Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: British Economist
Born: October 19, 1945
Quotes count: 45