The start of 2017 has brought very sad news as we learn of the passing of Professor Tony Atkinson, one of Britain's best economists.
Professor Atkinson's life-long academic focus has been on the causes and consequences of income and wealth inequality and then in shaping practical policy ideas and strategies to promote more inclusive economic growth. He truly has been a giant in helping analyse and assess how society is performing. We need more economists prepared to challenge orthodoxy - Atkinson was a giant in this respect and he will be sorely missed.
This is a strongly recommended read:
If we are concerned about equality of opportunity tomorrow, we need concern about inequality of outcome todaytutor2u.net/economics/blog…
RIP Tony Atkinson -- pioneer in inequality research, founder of LIS, and a wonderful person. A tragic loss. tutor2u.net/economics/blog…
Huge loss for economics & especially for econ of inequality, as Tony Atkinson, one of the all-time greats, passes.tutor2u.net/economics/blog…
In this superb talk at the RSA in June 2015, Professor Atkinson set out concrete policy proposals that could bring about a genuine shift in the distribution of income towards less inequality.
Only in November 2016 did he launch (to much acclaim) a major World Bank report on poverty.
Tony Atkinson’s World Bank Commission report on measuring global poverty launched @oxmartinschool
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Further reactions to the news of the passing of Sir Tony Atkinson is being curated here
For more than 50 years Sir Tony Atkinson battled for #economics to take #poverty and #inequality seriously, ft.com/content/cbda84…
RIP Tony Atkinson From Poverty to Power -Here he is on our personal responsibility for reducing inequality #SDOH oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/rip-tony-…
Remembering Tony Atkinson as the architect of modern public economicsbeatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/rem…
Sir Tony Atkinson inspired generations of inequality experts @BrankoMilan @ChristophLakner @gabriel_zucman@PikettyLeMonde. He'll be missed.
A lifetime's work studying #inequality @UniofOxford Tony #Atkinson's 15 policy recommendations to reduce inequality tony-atkinson.com/the-15-proposa… twitter.com/chrisgiles_/st…
RIP, with admiration, Tony Atkinson. Bob Solow & @paulkrugman discuss "Inequality: What Can be Done" @RussellSageFdn youtube.com/watch?v=DGmUtJ…
Sad to hear of the death of @RoyalStatSoc Honorary Fellow Tony Atkinson - a giant on inequality data tutor2u.net/economics/blog…
Very sorry to hear of the death of Tony Atkinson. I talked to him about inequality in 2015 prospectmagazine.co.uk/blogs/jonathan…
Tony Atkinson RIP. Among many achievements, huge contribution to improving quality of data on income & wealth. parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/research/da…
Sad to hear of the death of @RoyalStatSoc Honorary Fellow Tony Atkinson - a giant on inequality data tutor2u.net/economics/blog…
If we are concerned about equality of opportunity tomorrow, we need to be concerned about inequality of outcome today" - Tony Atkinson
Seconded. Atkinson & Stiglitz 1st real economics book I read when I started at Treasury in 1987 - still a classic. twitter.com/djmgaffneyw4/s…
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