“The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's li...” — Angus Deaton Quote

The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.

The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption - legal and illegal - and build fairer, more equal society without compromising innovation or entrepreneurship.

There is much that remains mysterious about why some countries grow rapidly and some grow slowly.

The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs.

Americans, like many citizens of rich countries, take for granted the legal and regulatory system, the public schools, health care and social security for the elderly, roads, defense and diplomacy, and heavy investments by the state in research, particularly in medicine.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

I accept the dying process. I would just like to be as healthy as I possibly can at each step and phase along the way.

A song like 'Shooting Star' - the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, 'Wow, there's a lot of people dying at that time in the music business.'

My story is going to be completely different than someone else's story in terms of hard work. What I might feel like is hard work, another person is dying to do.

Power is changing hands, from dying hierarchies to living networks.