Anthony Atkinson

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Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson ( September 4, 1944 - January 1, 2017 ) was a British economist . He was a specialist in income distribution and social inequality .

Life

Atkinson originally wanted to be a mathematician . After a stay as a nurse in one of the poorer quarters of Hamburg and the reading of the writings of Peter Townsend on poverty in the UK , however, he decided to economics to study. He studied at Cambridge University , where he obtained his master's degree in 1966 . From 1967 to 1971 he was a fellow at St. John's College , Cambridge. 1971 to 1976 he was Professor of Economics at Essex University . In 1973 he was a visiting scientist at MIT . From 1976 to 1979 he was Professor of Political Economy at University College London and Head of the Faculty. From 1980 to 1992 he was Tooke Professor of Economics and Statistics at the London School of Economics , whose Honorary Fellow he was thereafter. After that he was Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge and Fellow of Churchill College until 1994 . 1994 to 2005 Rector (Warden) of Nuffield College , Oxford , where he was most recently a Senior Research Fellow. He has worked in an advisory capacity on various commissions in both the UK and French governments and the EU .

He was President of the Econometric Society , the European Economic Association (1989), the Royal Economic Society and the International Economic Association (1989-1992). From 1988 to 1990 he was Vice President of the British Academy . From 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). In 1988 he was a founding member of the Academia Europaea . He was 18 times honorary doctor , u. a. the Universities of Frankfurt, Edinburgh, Lausanne and the École normal supérieure . In 1994 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In 2000 he was ennobled in Great Britain as a Knight Bachelor ("Sir") and in 2001 made a Knight of the French Legion of Honor . In 2007 Atkinson was the first to receive the A.SK Social Science Award from the Berlin Science Center for Social Research (WZB). For 2016 he was awarded the Dan David Prize .

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Atkinson is the author and editor of numerous books and has published over 140 articles in the most important economic journals. His conclusions in the area of ​​distribution problems have made him emerge as a pioneer in the field of New Public Finance . He became known through further work in the area of ​​measures of inequality (see Atkinson measure ). Work on the design of the tax structure and taxation are further aspects of his work.

Works (selection)

Essays

  • AB 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
  • with T. Piketty, E. Saez: Top Incomes in the Long Run of History (PDF, 1.39 MB)
  • with J. Stiglitz: The design of tax structure: Direct versus indirect taxation. In: Journal of Public Economics . Volume 6 Issue 1-2, 1976, pp. 55-75, doi: 10.1016 / 0047-2727 (76) 90041-4

Books

  • Economics of Inequality. Oxford University Press, 1975
  • with Joseph E. Stiglitz : Lectures on Public Economics. McGraw-Hill, 1980
  • Poverty and Social Security. Harvester Press, 1989
  • with F. Bourguignon a. 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 (editor): Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century. A Contrast between European and English-Speaking Countries. Oxford University Press, 2007 ISBN 0-19-928688-4
  • with T. Piketty: Top Incomes - A Global Perspective, Oxford, OUP, 2010 ISBN 978-0198727743
  • Inequality: What Can Be Done? . Harvard University Press 2014
    • dt .: inequality. What we can do about it . Translated from the English by Judith Elze. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-608-94905-6

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geoff Riley: RIP Sir Tony Atkinson . tutor2u, January 1, 2017, accessed on January 2, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Atkinson, Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Atkinson, Tony; Atkinson, Anthony Barnes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economist and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1944
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2017