Tony Atkinson

Sir
Tony Atkinson
CBE FBA
Tony Atkinson at the Festival of Economics in Trento, May 2015
Born
Anthony Barnes Atkinson

(1944-09-04)4 September 1944
Caerleon, Wales
Died1 January 2017(2017-01-01) (aged 72)
Oxford, England
NationalityBritish
SpouseJudith Mandeville
InstitutionNuffield College, Oxford
London School of Economics
FieldEconomics of income distribution, poverty, micro-economics
School or
tradition		Neo-Keynesian economics
Alma materCambridge University
Doctoral
students		John Micklewright
InfluencesJames Meade
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Sir Anthony Barnes "Tony" Atkinson, (4 September 1944 – 1 January 2017) was a British economist. He was the Senior Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. 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.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1988.

Atkinson died on 1 January 2017 from multiple myeloma in Oxford, England, aged 72.

References

  1. ↑ "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)
  2. ↑ RIP Sir Tony Atkinson
  3. ↑ "Tony Atkinson – Biography". Tony Atkinson – personal website. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "Mind the Gap: Anthony Atkinson, the godfather of inequality research, on a growing problem", The Economist, 6 June 2015, retrieved 7 June 2015
  5. ↑ "Tony Atkinson". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
  6. ↑ Giles, Chris; O'Connor, Sarah (2 January 2017). "Sir Tony Atkinson, economist and campaigner, 1944-2017". Financial Times. Nomura. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  7. ↑ "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.