Anthony Barnes Atkinson

Anthony Barnes Atkinson

Sir Anthony Barnes "Tony" Atkinson, FBA is a British economist and has been a Senior Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford since 2005. He served as Warden of Nuffield College from 1994 to 2005. Before that he held positions at the University of Cambridge, University College London, the London School of Economics, the University of Essex and the University of Oxford. His work is predominantly on income distributions. There is an inequality measure named after him: the Atkinson index. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984, a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1974, Honorary Member of the American Economic Association in 1985 and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994. He was President of the Econometric Society in 1988. He was knighted in 2000 and made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2001.

External links

* [http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/economics/people/atkinson.htm Homepage]
* [http://www.luiss.it/mes/faculty/tony-atkinson/ Tony Atkinson teaching at LUISS University Rome for the Master in European Studies in the year 2008/2009]


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