Angus Deaton on his Nobel Prize-winning career, Part 1
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Angus Deaton, this year's winner of the economics Nobel Prize, tells host Cardiff Garcia about his early influences and how he stumbled into economics. He then walks through the methodological work for which he won the Nobel. Music: "Rollin at 5 - 210" by Kevin MacLeod.
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