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Economics in America

An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of InequalityBy Angus DeatonNarrated by Angus Deaton

Economics in America

Length8h 38m

About this audiobook

This audiobook narrated by Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton shares candid reflections on the economist's craft Features "Asides with Angus" as bonus material with stories and outtakes from Deaton's recording sessions When economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by America's strengths and shocked by the extraordinary gaps he witnessed between people. Economics in America explains in clear terms how the field of economics addresses the most pressing issues of our times—from poverty, retirement, and the minimum wage to the ravages of the nation's uniquely disastrous health care system—and narrates Deaton's own account of his experiences as a naturalized US citizen and academic economist. Deaton is witty and he pulls no punches. In this incisive, candid, and funny book, he describes the everyday lives of working economists, recounting the triumphs as well as the disasters, and tells the inside story of the Nobel Prize in economics and the journey that led him to Stockholm to receive one. He discusses the ongoing tensions between economics and politics—and the extent to which economics has any content beyond the political prejudices of economists—and reflects on whether economists bear at least some responsibility for the growing despair and rising populism in America. Blending rare personal insights with illuminating perspectives on the social challenges that confront us today, Deaton offers a disarmingly frank critique of his own profession while shining a light on his adopted country's policy accomplishments and failures.

Audiobook details

GenreBusiness and Economics, Politics and Government

Length8 hrs 38 mins

Narrated byAngus Deaton

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateOct 3, 2023

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Opening Credits, Dedication

9Chapter 7 - Retirement, Pensions, and the Stock Market

2Preface

10Chapter 8 - Economists at Work

3Chapter 1 - Beginnings: Fast-Food Restaurants, Gangsters, and the Minimum Wage

11Chapter 9 - Nobel Prizes and Nobel Laureates

4Chapter 2 - Adventures in American Healthcare

12Chapter 10 - Did Economists Break the Economy?

5Chapter 3 - Poverty at Home and Poverty Abroad

13Chapter 11 - Finale: Is Economic Failure a Failure of Economics?

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6Chapter 4 - The Politics of Numbers: Fixing the Price?

14Asides with Angus

7Chapter 5 - Monetary Inequality

15Acknowledgments

8Chapter 6 - Inequalities beyond Money

16Closing Credits

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Angus Deaton

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