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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
94
Citations
75625
World Ranking
137
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Anthony B. Atkinson was affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research work spanned multiple fields, including Civil and Structural Engineering, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Finance.

The main topics covered in their work included:

  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms
  • Economic theories and models
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Topology Optimization in Engineering

In their publication record, notable recent papers included:

  • "Distributional National Accounts Guidelines: Methods and Concepts Used in the World Inequality Database," 2020, published in HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • "Capital and Labor: The Factor Income Composition of Top Incomes in the United States, 1962-2006," 2021, published in The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • "BIBLIOGRAPHY," 2021, published in International Review of Social History

Their research was conducted in collaboration with various coauthors, including Christoph Lakner, Belmiro P.M. Duarte, N. Oliveira, Facundo Alvaredo, and Thomas Blanchet.

Anthony B. Atkinson authored a book published by the London School of Economics and Political Science titled Inequality: what can be done?, scheduled for 2025. This work accumulated significant citations.

The venues where their research appeared included HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), The Review of Economics and Statistics, International Review of Social History, Emotion, and SSRN Electronic Journal, reflecting a diverse range of interdisciplinary academic outlets.

Best Publications

  • On the Measurement of Inequality

    Anthony B Atkinson

  • Lectures on Public Economics Updated edition

    Anthony Atkinson;Joseph Stiglitz

  • Lectures on public economics

    A. B. Atkinson;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • Top Incomes in the Long Run of History

    Anthony Barnes Atkinson;Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

  • Inequality: What Can Be Done?

    Anthony B. Atkinson

  • The design of tax structure: Direct versus indirect taxation

    A. B. Atkinson;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • The economics of inequality

    A. B. Atkinson

  • Social indicators: the EU and social inclusion

    T Atkinson;B Cantillon;E Marlier;B Nolan

  • ON THE MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY

    A. B. Atkinson

  • Income distribution in OECD countries: evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study

    A.B. Atkinson;Paris eng Oecd;L. Rainwater;T.M. Smeeding

  • Lectures on public economics

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  • The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective

    Facundo Alvaredo;Anthony Atkinson;Thomas Piketty;Emmanuel Saez

  • A New View of Technological Change

    Anthony B. Atkinson;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • Promise and Pitfalls in the Use of "Secondary" Data-Sets: Income Inequality in OECD Countries As a Case Study

    Anthony Barnes Atkinson;Andrea Brandolini

  • Unemployment Compensation and Labor Market Transitions: A Critical Review

    Anthony B Atkinson;John Micklewright

  • Top incomes over the twentieth century: a contrast between continental European and English-speaking countries

    Anthony B. Atkinson;Thomas Piketty

  • Multidimensional deprivation: contrasting social welfare and counting approaches

    A. B. Atkinson

  • The Comparison of Multi-Dimensioned Distributions of Economic Status

    A. B. Atkinson;F. Bourguignon

  • Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Distribution of Income

    Anthony Barnes Atkinson;John Micklewright

  • The gift relationship

    A. B. Atkinson;R. M. Titmuss

  • Handbook of income distribution

    Anthony B Atkinson;Anthony B Atkinson;François Bourguignon

  • Lectures in Public Economics

    John Whalley;A. B. Atkinson;J. E. Stiglitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Holly Sutherland
Holly Sutherland University of Essex
Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty Paris School of Economics
Rolf Aaberge
Rolf Aaberge Statistics Norway
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University
François Bourguignon
François Bourguignon Paris School of Economics
Brian Nolan
Brian Nolan University of Oxford
Emmanuel Saez
Emmanuel Saez University of California, Berkeley
Nicholas Stern
Nicholas Stern London School of Economics and Political Science
John Micklewright
John Micklewright University College London
Alan Maynard
Alan Maynard University of York

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