Tony Atkinson
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Sir Anthony Barnes "Tony" Atkinson,[1] (4 September 1944 ā 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]
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Tony Atkinson CBE FBA | |
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Tony Atkinson at the Festival of Economics in Trento, May 2015 | |
Born | Anthony Barnes Atkinson (1944-09-04)4 September 1944 Caerleon, Wales |
Died | 1 January 2017(2017-01-01) (aged 72) Oxford, England |
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 | |
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Atkinson died on 1 January 2017 from multiple myeloma in Oxford, England, aged 72.[5][6]