Anthony Barnes Atkinson

Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson ( born September 4, 1944) is a British economist. He is a specialist in income distribution and social inequality.

Life

Atkinson wanted to be a mathematician originally. After a stay as a nurse in one of the poorer quarters of Hamburg and the reading of writings by Peter Townsend on Poverty in the UK, he decided, however, to study economics. He studied at Cambridge University, where in 1966 he received his master's degree. 1967-1971 he was a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. 1971 to 1976 he was Professor of Economics at the University of Essex. In 1973 he was a visiting scientist at MIT. 1976 to 1979 he was professor of political economy at University College London and Chairman of the Faculty. 1980 to 1992 he was Tooke Professor of Economics and Statistics at the London School of Economics, whose Honorary Fellow he felt like it. After that, he was until 1994 Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge and Fellow of Churchill College. 1994-2005 Rector ( Warden ) of Nuffield College, Oxford, where he is a Senior Research Fellow today. He worked in an advisory capacity in various committees of both the British and the French Government and the EU.

He was president of the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association (1989 ), the Royal Economic Society and the International Economic Association (1989 to 1992). 1988 to 1990 he was Vice President of the British Academy. 1995 to 1998 he was President of the Royal Economic Society and from 1985 he was an honorary member of the American Economic Association ( AEA). He was a founding member in 1988 of the Academia Europaea. He is 18x honorary doctorate, including the University of Frankfurt, Edinburgh, Lausanne and the Ecole Normale Supérieure.

In 2000 he was knighted in the UK and was appointed in 2001 a Knight of the French Legion of Honour.

Work

Atkinson is the author and editor of numerous books and has published over 140 articles in major economic journals. His conclusions in the field of distribution problems have had to kick him as a pioneer the field of New Public Finance in appearance. He became known through further work on the extent of inequality (see Atkinson measure ). Work on the design of the tax structure and taxation are other aspects of his work.

Works (selection)

  • A. B. Atkinson: On the Measurement of Inequality. In: Journal of Economic Theory. Volume 2, Issue 3, 1970, pp. 244-263.
  • AB Atkinson: Bringing Income Distribution in from the Cold. In: Economic Journal. Volume 107, March 1997, pp. 297-321.
  • AB Atkinson: Income inequality in OECD countries: Data and Explanations. CESifo Working Paper No. 881, 2003
  • T. Piketty, E. Saez: Top Incomes in the Long Run of History (PDF, 1.39 MB)
  • Economics of Inequality. Oxford University Press, 1975
  • Joseph E. Stiglitz: Lectures on Public Economics. McGraw-Hill, 1980
  • Poverty and Social Security. Harvester Press, 1989
  • With F. Bourguignon and C. Morrisson: Empirical Studies of Earnings Mobility. Hardwood Academic Publishers, 1992
  • Public Economics in Action. Oxford University Press, 1995
  • Three Lectures on Poverty in Europe. Oxford Basil Blackwell, 1998
  • With Thomas Piketty ( editors ): Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast in between European and English - Speaking Countries. Oxford University Press, 2007 ISBN 0199286884
  • With T. Piketty: Top Incomes - A Global Perspective, Oxford, OUP, 2010 ISBN
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