Professor Sir Anthony B. Atkinson, 1944-2017
The Faculty of Economics is deeply saddened by the death of Tony Atkinson, who passed away on 1 January 2017 at the age of 72. He began his academic career as Fellow of St. John's College, 1967-71, and returned to Cambridge in 1992 as Professor of Political Economy and Fellow of Churchill College before he became Warden of Nuffield College, University of Oxford, in 1994. Tony Atkinson pioneered the study of the economics of income distribution and the measurement of poverty and inequality. The Atkinson index is named after him. Throughout his life, he was actively engaged with policymaking and with finding solutions to alleviate poverty and inequality.
Obituaries
Anthony Atkinson, a British economist and expert on inequality, died on January 1st - by The Economist
Anthony B. Atkinson, Economist Who Pioneered Study of Inequality, Dies at 72 - by Sewell Chan for the New York Times
Remembering Tony Atkinson as the architect of modern public economics - by the historian of economics Beatrice Cherrier
Economist Professor Sir Tony Atkinson 'pioneered the study of inequality' - published by the University of Oxford
Tony Atkinson 1944 - 2017 - Written by several colleagues at the London School of Economics
Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, 1944 - 2017 - by the Oxford Martin School
Tony Atkinson (1944 - 2017) and the measurement of global poverty - by Francisco Ferreira and Ana Revenga for the World Bank
Tony Atkinson is the economist who had the measure of inequality - by Andrew Leigh for the Canberra Times
Passing of Anthony B. Atkinson - by Thomas Piketty
Need to pay
Sir Tony Atkinson, economist and campaigner, 1944-2017 - by Chris Giles and Sarah O’Connor for the Financial Times