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Encyclopedia > Anthony Atkinson

Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson (Tony Atkinson) is a British economist and currently Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford since August 1994. He studied at Cambridge 1963-1966, and held positions at Cambridge, UCL, LSE, University of Essex and Oxford. He was knighted in 2000. His work is predominantly on income distributions. There is a inequality measure named after him: the Atkinson index. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984. Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize in Economics winner. ... ... Nuffield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... Shown within Cambridgeshire Geography Status City (1951) Region East of England Admin. ... UCL may refer to University College London, in England Université catholique de Louvain, in Belgium Ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction. ... LSE is an initialism for: London School of Economics and Political Science London Stock Exchange This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. ... The University of Essex is a British plate glass university. ... Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ... The Lorenz curve was developed by Max O. Lorenz in 1905 as a graphical representation of income distribution. ... The feasible regions of linear programming are defined by a set of inequalities. ... In economics, the Atkinson index or Atkinson measure is used to quantify income inequality. ... The British Academy is the United Kingdoms national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. ...


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