The Scottish-born son of a one-time coal miner, Angus Deaton has spent a half-century rising to the top of the economics profession, winning a Nobel prize in 2015 and celebrated since alongside ...

In October 2015, Princeton economist Angus Deaton got an early-morning call from Sweden that most scholars can only dream of. Groggy and bleary-eyed, Deaton learned that he had won the Nobel Prize ...