Nobel Prize for Economy awarded to Scotland's Angus Deaton
(AGI) Stockholm, Oct 12 - The 2015 Nobel Prize for EconomicSciences has been awarded to Scotland's Angus Deaton, Professorof Economics and International Affairs at the University ofPrinceton. The prize was awarded for his analyses ofconsumption trends, poverty and welfare systems. ProfessorDeaton was born in Edinburgh on October 19, 1945, and he hasBritish and American citizenship. He teaches Economics andInternational Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Publicand International Affairs (WWS) and at the Department ofEconomics of the University of Princeton. "By linkingdetailed individual choices and aggregate outcomes, hisresearch has