Tony Atkinson

Tony Atkinson
Tony Atkinson at the Festival of Economics in Trento, May 2015
Born
Anthony Barnes Atkinson

(1944-09-04)4 September 1944
Caerleon, Wales, United Kingdom
Died1 January 2017(2017-01-01) (aged 72)
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
SpouseJudith Mandeville
Academic career
FieldEconomics of income distribution, poverty, micro-economics
InstitutionNuffield College, Oxford
London School of Economics
School or
tradition
Neo-Keynesian economics
Alma materCambridge University
Doctoral
students
John Micklewright
InfluencesJames Meade
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson[1] CBE FBA (4 September 1944 – 1 January 2017) was a British economist, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and senior research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.[2]

A student of James Meade, Atkinson virtually single-handedly established the modern British field of inequality and poverty studies. He worked on inequality and poverty for over four decades.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Atkinson, A.B. (Anthony Barnes), 1944–". Library of Congress. Retrieved 17 July 2014. CIP t.p. (A.B. Atkinson, London School of Economics) data sheet (b. 09-04-44)
  2. ^ "Tony Atkinson – Biography". Tony Atkinson – personal website. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  3. ^ "Mind the Gap: Anthony Atkinson, the godfather of inequality research, on a growing problem", The Economist, 6 June 2015, retrieved 7 June 2015
  4. ^ Armbruster, Alexander; Berger, Gerald Brown. "Der große Ungleichheitsforscher ist tot". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 2 January 2017.