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Angus Deaton

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Angus Deaton, the 2015 Nobel laureate in economics, is Professor Emeritus of Economics and International Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California, and co-author of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (Princeton University Press, 2020).

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  1. Progress in Peril
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    Progress in Peril

    Dec 11, 2023 Angus Deaton reflects on the apparent reversal in global economic development and its implications for the future.

  2. Is Economic Failure an Economics Failure?
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    Is Economic Failure an Economics Failure?

    Dec 12, 2022 Angus Deaton considers the discipline's responsibility for contemporary social and political ills.

  3. Who Broke American Democracy?
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    Who Broke American Democracy?

    Oct 27, 2022 Angus Deaton sees attacks on the US election system as an outgrowth of longer-running institutional failures.

  4. America's Killer Capitalism
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    America's Killer Capitalism

    Dec 4, 2021 Anne Case & Angus Deaton show that there are no excuses for the declining prospects among less-educated cohorts.

  5. An Interview with Angus Deaton
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    An Interview with Angus Deaton

    Jun 15, 2021 Angus Deaton

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    The Middle East War Enters a New Phase

    Richard Haass

    It takes only one side to start a war, but it takes all parties involved to end one. In this latest crisis in the Middle East, initiative has passed from Israel to the US and now to Iran, which now must decide if the US attack is the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning.

     thinks the US attacks on three nuclear sites raise more questions than have been answered so far.
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    An Iranian Bomb Just Became More Likely

    Brahma Chellaney

    Military strikes might slow down a nuclear program, but they cannot impose long-term restraint – especially when they are carried out by powers that flout the very rules they claim to be enforcing. The US and Israel are likely to learn this the hard way, as Iran abandons all doubts about pursuing nuclear breakout.

     struggles to see how any country would put its faith in the global nonproliferation regime at this point.
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    War and Tariffs Are a Double Shock to the World Economy

    Stephen S. Roach warns that their interplay is making a global recession increasingly likely.
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    Iran and the End of the Old Multilateralism

    Harold James considers the implications of America’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities without consulting allies.
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    The High Cost of Trump’s Brain Drain

    Anne O. Krueger warns that the government crackdown on elite universities risks undermining US innovation and competitiveness.
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    PS Events: London Climate Action Week 2025 Day Two

    PS editors present day two of the London Climate Action Week 2025 event.
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    Only Diplomacy Can End the Iranian Nuclear Threat

    Charles A. Kupchan

    While Israel and the United States have sound reasons for seeking to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities, military force alone will not bring about a lasting resolution. That can come only through diplomacy – and there has never been a better time for the US to extract concessions.

     argues that there is no military solution to the Islamic Republic's pursuit of the bomb.
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    A Fragmenting World Can Unite Around Immunization

    José Manuel Barroso urges donors to renew their financial and political commitments to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
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    Iran Is Headed Toward Regime Collapse

    Nouriel Roubini predicts that the end will come within a year, and that the Middle East as a whole will benefit.

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