A bit about the author: > A student of James Meade, Atkinson virtually single-handedly established the modern British field of inequality and poverty studies.

A bit about the author: > 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.[3][4] […] > Atkinson's work was predominantly on income distributions. But he also worked on a wide field of other economic and social questions including taxation, wealth distribution, the economics of the welfare state, health economics, and poverty.[14] In his long career he published over 350 research papers and authored 24 books.[15] Characteristic for much of his work is a combination of theoretical and applied perspectives.[16] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Atkinson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Atkinson