# Angus Deaton (@angus-deaton)

Angus Deaton is a British-American economist whose work connects individual consumption, household surveys, poverty measurement, health, and welfare. Princeton lists him as a Senior Scholar with continuing interests in inequality and how evidence should inform policy. He received the 2015 economics prize for analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Angus Deaton's public record._

## Topics

- [Consumption Systems](/@angus-deaton/consumption-systems.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Health, Mortality, and Aid](/@angus-deaton/health-and-aid.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Health, Inequality, and Evidence](/@angus-deaton/health-inequality-and-evidence.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Measurement and Development](/@angus-deaton/measurement-and-development.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Demand and Consumption](/@angus-deaton/demand-and-consumption.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Poverty and Household Surveys](/@angus-deaton/poverty-and-household-surveys.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://deaton.scholar.princeton.edu/bio
- blog: https://faculty.princeton.edu/people/angus-stewart-deaton
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2015/press-release/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2015/popular-information/

## Ask this twin

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```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "angus-deaton", "question": "…"}`.