Tony Atkinson
Appearance
Tony Atkinson | |
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Tony Atkinson at the Festival of Economics in Trento, May 2015 | |
Born | Anthony Barnes Atkinson 4 September 1944 Caerleon, Wales |
Died | 1 January 2017 Oxford, England | (aged 72)
Nationality | British |
Spouse | Judith Mandeville |
Institution | Nuffield College, Oxford London School of Economics |
Field | Economics of income distribution, poverty, micro-economics |
School or tradition | Neo-Keynesian economics |
Alma mater | Cambridge University |
Doctoral students | John Micklewright |
Influences | James Meade |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
Sir Anthony Barnes "Tony" Atkinson,[1] (4 September 1944 – 1 January 2017)[2] was a British economist. He was the Senior Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics.[3] 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.[4]
Atkinson died on 1 January 2017 from multiple myeloma in Oxford, England, aged 72.[5][6]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "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)
- ↑ RIP Sir Tony Atkinson
- ↑ "Tony Atkinson – Biography". Tony Atkinson – personal website. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
- ↑ "Mind the Gap: Anthony Atkinson, the godfather of inequality research, on a growing problem", The Economist, 6 June 2015, retrieved 7 June 2015
- ↑ Giles, Chris; O'Connor, Sarah (2 January 2017). "Sir Tony Atkinson, economist and campaigner, 1944-2017". Financial Times. Nomura. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
- ↑ "Anthony Atkinson: The economist who battled against inequality has died". Wort.lu. 2 January 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-05-11. Retrieved 2017-01-02.