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, United Kingdom |
Died | 1 January 2017 Oxford, England, United Kingdom | (aged 72)
Nationality | British |
Spouse | Judith Mandeville |
Academic career | |
Field | Economics of income distribution, poverty, micro-economics |
Institution | Nuffield College, Oxford London School of 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 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]
CIP t.p. (A.B. Atkinson, London School of Economics) data sheet (b. 09-04-44)
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