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Nearly Sane

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Not that Angus Dea(y)ton wins Nobel prize
« on: October 12, 2015, 01:12:36 PM »
Linked to the 'is everything getting worse? No, stop reading Keith Maitland's threads' thread, the new Nobel laureate for economics is optimistic.


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Re: Not that Angus Dea(y)ton wins Nobel prize
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2015, 01:17:51 PM »
Link to a paper from him on poverty measures which seems interesting - note so far just scanned it.


http://www.princeton.edu/rpds/papers/pdfs/deaton_povertymeasured.pdf