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It is with great sadness that we record the death on 1 January 2017 of Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, member of the Fiscal Studies Advisory Board and deep influence on the economic analysis of fiscal affairs.

In this article Richard Blundell and Ian Preston provide a brief summary of his work.

    Authors

    Richard Blundell
    Richard Blundell

    CPP Co-Director

    Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.

    Ian Preston
    Ian Preston

    Research Fellow University College London

    Ian is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Professor of Economics at UCL. He joined UCL in 1991 and has been attached to the IFS since 1990.

    Journal article details

    DOI
    10.1111/1475-5890.12132
    Publisher
    Wiley
    Issue
    Volume 38, Issue 1, March 2017, pages 5-6

    Suggested citation

    Blundell, R and Preston, I. (2017). 'Remembering Tony Atkinson' 38(1/2017), pp.5–6.

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