Please read his 'Letters from America' column: http://scholar.princeton.edu/deaton/letters-america http://scholar.princeton.edu/deaton/letters-america His arti

Please read his 'Letters from America' column: http://scholar.princeton.edu/deaton/letters-america http://scholar.princeton.edu/deaton/letters-america His articles are very approachable and written with a lot of wit and vision for where new research is taking economics. For example see his take on new research on minimum wage at a time when most economists were very sceptical: http://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/deaton/files/letterfromamerica_oct1996.pdf http://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/deaton/file...