英国经济学家Angus Deaton因其关于消费、贫困与福利方面的卓越研究工作,被授予2015年度的诺贝尔经济科学奖。在经济学的众多领域,包括微观经济学、宏观经济学、发展经济学以及微观计量经济学,Deaton均做出了突出贡献。他将理论与测量紧密结合,并通过特定的统计方法将微观数据与宏观数据联系起来,对与人类福利相关的问题展开研究。这些研究不仅对经济学理论产生了深刻影响,对于实际政策的制定也起到了巨大作用。本文对Deaton的主要学术贡献进行梳理,总结其获奖成就对现有研究的启示,并提出一些值得关注的研究方向和科学问题,希望能推动我国在相关领域的研究。
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2015 to British economist Angus Deaton for his distinguished analysis of consumption, poverty and welfare. In many areas of economics, including roicroeconomics, roacrooeconoroics, development economics and microeeonometrics, Deaton made outstanding contributions. His work is connecting theory and measurement, and linking micro and macro data by using relevant statistical methods, to do the researches related to human welfare. These studies not only have profound influence on the economic theory, but also have played a key role in actual policy making. This paper summarizes the academic contribution of Deaton, and proposes some research directions and problems worthy of attention.