Tony Atkinson

Sir Anthony Barnes "Tony" Atkinson, (4 September 1944 – 1 January 2017)RIP Sir Tony Atkinson 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.

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