At 6:10am on October 12th, Angus Deaton, an economist at Princeton University on America's east coast, picked up the phone to a Swedish voice. The voice was so concerned to persuade him that this wasn't a prank call that he started to worry it was precisely that. No need. The Nobel committee had awarded him the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare". The prize celebrated a whole career, in which he has used data to overturn sloppy assumptions, reimagined how we measure the world, and intertwined microeconomics and macroeconomics. He even has a paradox named after him.
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机译：10月12日上午6:10，美国东海岸普林斯顿大学的经济学家安格斯·迪顿（Angus Deaton）拿起电话，传来瑞典语声音。声音非常令人信服，以至于说不上这是恶作剧，以至于他开始担心那是事实。没必要。诺贝尔委员会授予他“ Sveriges Riksbank经济科学奖”，以表彰他对消费，贫困和福利的分析。该奖项庆祝了整个职业生涯，他使用数据推翻了草率的假设，重新想象了我们如何衡量世界，并将微观经济学和宏观经济学交织在一起。他甚至有一个以他的名字命名的悖论。
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