Please read his &#x27;Letters from America&#x27; column: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.princeton.edu&#x2F;deaton&#x2F;letters-america" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.princeton.edu&#x2F;deaton&#x2F;letters-america</a><p>His articles are very approachable and written with a lot of wit and vision for where new research is taking economics.<p>For example see his take on new research on minimum wage at a time when most economists were very sceptical: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.princeton.edu&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;deaton&#x2F;files&#x2F;letterfromamerica_oct1996.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.princeton.edu&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;deaton&#x2F;file...</a>