Simona Benedettini and Carlo Stagnaro

Simona Benedettini is fellow of Istituto Bruno Leoni and Carlo Stagnaro is chief of the technical staff of Italy’s Minister of Economic Development. The authors write in their own personal capacity.

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If you want to fight poverty, you have to understand it in the first place

A theory in search of evidence. These few words may summarise quite fairly the work of Angus Deaton, who this week was awarded the 2015 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences. According to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, “Deaton’s research has greatly influenced both practical policymaking and the scientific community. By empha­sising the links between […]