Angus Deaton's Birth Card: The 3 of Clubs

In the record

Sir Angus Stewart Deaton (born 19 October 1945) is a British-American economist and academic. The birth-card coordinate for October 19 is the 3 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2015 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2015 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare

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Angus Deaton's birthday maps to the 3 of Clubs (The Creative Communicator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Angus Deaton. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move an idea across more than one channel without abandoning the one that needs depth.

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Angus Deaton in the public record

Deaton is a Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus (since 2016) 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. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare. Deaton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He attended Hawick High School and then Fettes College as a foundation scholar, working at Portmeirion Hotel in the summer of 1964. He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Cambridge, the last with a 1975 thesis entitled Models of Consumer Demand and Their Application to the United Kingdom under the supervision of Richard Stone. At Cambridge, he was a student and later a fellow at Fitzwilliam College, and a research officer working with Richard Stone and Terry Barker in the Department of Applied Economics.

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Deaton's first work to become known was Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), which he developed with John Muellbauer and published in The American Economic Review (AER) in 1980.

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Also on the record

1. In 1976 Deaton took up a post at the University of Bristol as Professor of Econometrics.
2. During this period, he completed a significant portion of his most influential work.
3. In 1978, he became the first ever recipient of the Frisch Medal, an award given by the Econometric Society every two years to an applied paper published within the past five years in Econometrica.
4. In 1980, his paper on how demand for various consumption goods depends on prices and income was published in The American Economic Review.

Other laureates with this card

• Charles Nicolle — 1928 Physiology or Medicine
• David J. Thouless — 2016 Physics
• Donald A. Glaser — 1960 Physics
• Elias Canetti — 1981 Literature
• Eugene Wigner — 1963 Physics
• Frances H. Arnold — 2018 Chemistry
• Hamilton O. Smith — 1978 Physiology or Medicine
• Hans Spemann — 1935 Physiology or Medicine
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — 1913 Physics
• Henri Becquerel — 1903 Physics
• Jean Dausset — 1980 Physiology or Medicine
• John B. Goodenough — 2019 Chemistry
• 14 more laureates share this card.

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