Prof. Sir Anthony Atkinson is an academic economist particularly concerned with issues of social justice and the design of public policy. He has been writing on economics since the 1960s, when his first book was on poverty in Britain and his second on the unequal distribution of wealth. He has contributed to the development of research on the social dimension of the European Union, including the social indicators that now underlie the Europe 2020 Agenda. He worked on top incomes, constructing the World Top Incomes Database, and on monitoring rising inequality across the world. Together with Joseph Stiglitz, he wrote Lectures in Public Economics and today he is developing research on global public economics. He was President of the Luxembourg Income Study.
Prof. Atkinson died in January 2017.
