Tony Atkinson
Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson 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.
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 (aged 72) Oxford, England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse | Judith Mandeville |
| Academic career | |
| 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 | |
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.
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