The Great Escape

We were honored to host Angus Deaton last week for a lecture on his brand new book. A standing-only crowd piled in to hear Deaton, Professor of International Affairs and  Economics at Princeton, discuss humanity's "Great Escape" from poverty as well as the troubling health and income inequalities that still persist. [shareprints gallery_id="5806" gallery_type="slidescroll" gallery_position="pos_center" gallery_width="width_100" image_size="small" image_padding="0" theme="dark" image_hover="false" lightbox_type="slide" titles="true" captions="true" descriptions="true" comments="true" sharing="true"]All photos ©NYU Photo Bureau: Prouhansky

Short Clip 1- Some Things That Would Do Good

Short Clip 2- It's Not About The Money

Short Clip 3- What Is to Be Done about Weak State Capacity?