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Angus Deaton won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.” Deaton is a professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. At a [Cato Book Forum](https://www.cato.org/events/great-escape-health-wealth-origins-inequality) in 2013, he presented his book *The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality*, in which he explains why people throughout the world are living longer and more prosperous lives than ever before. **Speeches at the Cato Institute** 
[*The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality*](https://www.cato.org/events/great-escape-health-wealth-origins-inequality)*,* Cato Book Forum, December 3, 2013 
[Deaton interviewed on Cato's Daily Podcast](https://www.cato.org/multimedia/daily-podcast/great-escape-poverty)

**Other Resources** 
[Deaton on *The Great Escape* featured in *Cato Policy Report*](https://www.cato.org/policy-report/marchapril-2014/great-escape), March/April 2014 
[Deaton's page on the Nobel Prize website](http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2015/deaton-facts.html)