Angus Deaton has been awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for 2015.
Angus Deaton was announced as the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science on Monday. He’s an economist that was given the prize for his work in studies of consumption in developing nations. He focused on study individual people and their choices based on wealth, rather than looking at large group data, reports The New York Times.
Here are a few things to know about Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, as collected from NYT.
- He grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland and dreamed of visiting warm, tropical areas.
- His mentor was Richard Stone, who also received the same Nobel Prize as Deaton back in 1984.
- He was born in 1945.
- Deaton earned his Ph.D. in 1974 from the University of Cambridge.
- He’s been serving as the Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University in N.J. since 1983.
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