Economics in America (Angus Deaton)

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.

Author:: Angus Deaton
Narrator:: Angus Deaton
Content:: Unabridged (chapter list)
Length:: 8:38 h
Format:: MP3 download (346 MB)
Language:: English
Publisher:: Princeton University Press (2023)
Genres:: Business & Economics, Politics & Current Affairs
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01 - Opening Credits, Dedication	0:20	1 MB
02 - Preface	10:26	7 MB
03 - Chapter 1 - Beginnings Fast-Food Restaurants, Gangsters, and the Minimum Wage	35:24	24 MB
04 - Chapter 2 - Adventures in American Healthcare	58:27	39 MB
05 - Chapter 3 - Poverty at Home and Poverty Abroad	53:13	35 MB
06 - Chapter 4 - The Politics of Numbers Fixing the Price	34:31	23 MB
07 - Chapter 5 - Monetary Inequality	45:37	30 MB
08 - Chapter 6 - Inequalities beyond Money	47:32	31 MB
09 - Chapter 7 - Retirement, Pensions, and the Stock Market	64:30	42 MB
10 - Chapter 8 - Economists at Work	70:01	47 MB
11 - Chapter 9 - Nobel Prizes and Nobel Laureates	28:39	18 MB
12 - Chapter 10 - Did Economists Break the Economy	31:34	21 MB
13 - Chapter 11 - Finale Is Economic Failure a Failure of Economics	23:07	15 MB
14 - Asides with Angus	12:21	7 MB
15 - Acknowledgments	1:45	1 MB
16 - Closing Credits	0:45	1 MB

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Summary

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.

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