Andrea BrandolinI — Inequality and economics: Tony Atkinson’s enduring lessons

Sir Tony Atkinson, the doyen of inequality economics, passed away in January. This column, by a longstanding friend and co-author, outlines his contributions to the analysis and measurement of inequality – and many other areas of economics, including taxation, social protection, and the welfare state. The ultimate goal of Atkinson’s research was to translate economic analysis into policy actions: economics is a tool for understanding the world and taking informed decisions on policies, but economists must strive to communicate their results beyond the narrow circles of decision-makers, making them accessible for public discussion.

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Inequality and economics: Tony Atkinson’s enduring lessons

Andrea Brandolini | Head of Statistical Analysis Directorate, Bank of Italy

Thomas Piketty — A Practical Vision of a More Equal Society

Pickett reviews Tony Atkinson's Inequality: What Can Be Done?

The New York Review of Books
A Practical Vision of a More Equal Society
Thomas Piketty

ht Mark Thoma at Economist's View

Miles Corak — “After Piketty”, 12 policy proposes to reduce inequality of outcomes

“The media storm surrounding the publication of Thomas Piketty’s remarkable Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014) has ensured that inequality is now in the forefront of public debate. But what next?

Thus begins an essay in The British Journal of Sociology by the dean of inequality studies, A. B. Atkinson of Oxford University. This is a must read for anyone interested in public policy addressed to the growing inequality in the rich countries.

Professor Atkinson’s focus is on the United Kingdom, but his far-reaching set of policy prescriptions address many aspects of public policy (not just tax and transfer policy), and have relevance well beyond the European context.

Tony Atkinson is an economist of the highest order who has been studying and contributing to the economics of inequality since the 1960s. In this paper he offers 12 proposals that, he says, “could bring about a genuine shift in the distribution of income towards less inequality.”

Here is a link to the paper.….

Economics for public policy

“After Piketty”, 12 policy proposes to reduce inequality of outcomes
Miles Corak | Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa

h/t Brad DeLong

Diane Coyle — Inequality – What is to be done?

Short review of Inequality: What Can Be Done? by Tony Atkinson.

The Enlightened Economist
Inequality – What is to be done?
Diane Coyle | freelance economist and a former advisor to the UK Treasury. She is a member of the UK Competition Commission and is acting Chairman of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation

Miles Corak — “After Piketty”, 12 policy proposes to reduce inequality of outcomes

Tony Atkinson.

Economics for public policy
“After Piketty”, 12 policy proposes to reduce inequality of outcomes
Miles Corak | Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa

The World's Top Incomes Database

The World's Top Incomes Database
Facundo Alvaredo, Tony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez
h/t Jan Milch

circuit — Anthony Atkinson on the public debt and intergenerational equity

Much of my spare time has been spent reading books and thinking about the best way to think about the economy. In the end, I've come to the conclusion that it's the big picture that matters. 

Take the question of the public debt. Much of the discussion in the popular press relating to the national debt focuses on the liabilities of the government and actuarial concerns (dealing with "how to pay it off"), but it rarely discusses the link between public debt and private wealth, wealth distribution and intergenerational equity. 

Anthony Atkinson, I believe, summarized it best here

Fictional Reserve Barking
Anthony Atkinson on the public debt and intergenerational equity
circuit

Ingrid Robeyns — Why Tony Atkinson should get the Nobel Prize in Economics (but perhaps not alone)

Atkinson, Piketty, or Atkinson and Piketty?

[Atkinson] also repeatedly argued that economics is a moral science and that it should, once again, understand itself as a moral science….

Crooked Timber
Why Tony Atkinson should get the Nobel Prize in Economics (but perhaps not alone)
Ingrid Robeyns | Ingrid Robeyns holds the Chair Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities and the associated Ethics Institute, and is also a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association.