“In the high-income English-speaking world, the elderly get treated ver...” — Angus Deaton Quote

In the high-income English-speaking world, the elderly get treated very well indeed.

I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such as ours.

I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.

International cooperation is vital to keeping our globe safe, commerce flowing, and our planet habitable.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

During all my undergrad years and in high school, I was involved in tutoring and public service. At Harvard, I spent over 35 hours a week doing service. I was a Big Sister, I worked for the homeless, the elderly; it was the epicenter of my focus.

I love talking with elderly people.

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

It is a great mistake on the part of elderly ladies, male and female, to tell a child that he is seeing his happiest days. Do not you believe a word of it, my little friend.