The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Noble for 2015 to Angus Deaton of Princeton University “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”.

Angus Deaton, UK and US citizen.  Born 1945 in Edinburgh, UK. Ph.D. 1974 from University of Cambridge, UK. Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University, NJ, since 1983.

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