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

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

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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