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Economics in America
An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of InequalityBy Angus DeatonNarrated by Angus DeatonLength8h 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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