Tony Atkinson

Sir Anthony Barnes "Tony" Atkinson,^[1] (4 September 1944 – 1 January 2017)^[2] was a British economist. He was the Senior Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics.^[3] 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.^[4]

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
Died	1 January 2017(2017-01-01) (aged 72) Oxford, England
Nationality	British
Spouse	Judith Mandeville
Institution	Nuffield College, Oxford London School of Economics
Field	Economics of income distribution, poverty, micro-economics
School or tradition	Neo-Keynesian economics
Alma mater	Cambridge University
Doctoral students	John Micklewright
Influences	James Meade
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1988.^[5]

Atkinson died on 1 January 2017 from multiple myeloma in Oxford, England, aged 72.^[6][7]