Angus Deaton Quotes
You can find episodes like the flu epidemic or war times when mortality rates go up, but sustained increases in mortality for any major group in any society are really quite rare. It's an indication that something is very wrong.
Case, Anne, and Angus Deaton. Interview. NPR, 2015.
A century later the statement is still true if we consider the number of deaths attributable to the three causes.
Botswana is one of the few African national successes at that time. It is the world’s largest diamond exporter and unlike many other nations, wealthy in natural resources like Saudi Arabia or Iran, Botswana became a multi-party democracy upon independence and has remained that ever since.
This is a very interesting historical quotation. The House and the Senate closed the galleries because America was in the midst of the most fatal outbreak of disease in its history. It was the Flu, but that year it was a particularly virulent strain—the first time the world had seen the H1N1 strain. There was no vaccine then and about 100 million people died worldwide. In America more than ½ million people died. It was the worst Pandemic in history—it killed more people than the Black Plague even. The medical authorities did realize that the flu was spread from person to person but other than keep people from congregating in groups as in the Congressional galleries, there was little they knew about what to do.
In the next century, the American lifespan increased over a decade—true social progress.
John Lamb, a Patriot Rebel leader of an artillery unit, we trying to move cannon from the Battery in lower Manhattan to the North so as not to fall into the hands of the British and could be used by General Washington. The officers of the Asia, lying off Wall Street, saw this and fired a 32 gun broadside of huge shells to stop them. However, they could not. Incredibly no one was killed but this and other military operations caused an evacuation of over 40 percent of the New York City population by the end of 1775.
Sir Angus Stewart Deaton FBA is a British-American economist and academic. Deaton is currently a Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. His research focuses primarily on poverty, inequality, health, wellbeing, and economic development.
