Tony Atkinson
British economist (1944–2017) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Tony Atkinson | |
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Born | Anthony Barnes Atkinson (1944-09-04)4 September 1944 Caerleon, Wales, United Kingdom |
Died | 1 January 2017(2017-01-01) (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 | |
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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]