CURRICULUM VITAE ANTHONY BARNES ATKINSON
CURRICULUM VITAE SIR TONY ATKINSON
Knight, 2000;
Chevalier de la Légion dHonneur, 2001.
Current Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford.
Position
Career Fellow of St. Johns College, Cambridge, 1967-71;
Professor of Economics, University of Essex, 1971-76 (Chairman of Department, 1974-76);
Visiting Professor of Economics at MIT, 1973;
Professor of Political Economy and Head of Department, University College, London, 1976-79;
Tooke Professor of Economic Science and Statistics, London School of Economics, 1980-92.
Professor of Political Economy, University of Cambridge
Fellow of Churchill College, 1992-94.
Warden, Nuffield College, Oxford, 1994-2005
Honours Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1974- (President, 1988);
Fellow of the British Academy, 1984- (Vice President 1988-90),
Honorary Member of the American Economic Association, 1985-
Founding Member of the Academia Europaea, 1988-;
President, European Economic Association, 1989;
President, International Economic Association, 1989-1992
President, Royal Economic Society, 1995-1998
UAP Scientific Prize, Paris 1986;
Honorary Fellow, London School of Economics 2004
Hon. Doctor of the following Universities:
Frankfurt, 1987
Lausanne, 1988
University of Liège, 1989;
Athens, University of Economics, 1991
Stirling, 1992
Edinburgh, 1994
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 1995
Essex, 1995
Bologna, 1995
South Bank University, 1996
Louvain La Neuve, 1996
Nottingham 2000
London Metropolitan 2002
Gent, 2004
Antwerp, 2004
European University Institute, 2004
Molise, 2006
Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,1994-;
Frank E Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy, 1995
President of Section F, British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1997;
Professional Editor, Journal of Public Economics, 1971-1997;
Activities Chairman of Suntory-Toyota International Centre for
Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE, 1981-87;
Chairman of Economics Committee, Social Science Research Council, 1979-1981;
Chairman, Taxation Review Committee, Fabian Society, 1989-90;
Consulting Editor, Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Economic Literature, 1992-7;
Member, Research Council of the European University Institute, Florence, 1988-1994;
Chairman, Foundation for International Studies in Social Security, 1990-1992;
Member, Section 37, Comité National du CNRS, 1992-1995
Member, Social Justice Commission, 1992-1994
Member, Economic and Social Research Council, 1994-1995
Trustee, Nuffield Foundation, 1996-
Official activities Member, Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth, 1978-1979;
Member, Retail Prices Index Advisory Committee, 1984-1990;
Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury and Civil Service Committee, 1982-1983;
Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Social Services Committee, 1988-1990;
Member, Pension Law Review Committee, 1992-3.
Member, Conseil dAnalyse Economique, advising the French Prime Minister 1997-2001
Chair, Atkinson Review of the Measurement of Government Output, Office for National Statistics
Author of the Following Books:
Poverty in Britain and the Reform of Social Security, 1969
Unequal Shares Wealth in Britain, 1972
Economics of Inequality, 1975 second edition 1983,
The Distribution of Personal Wealth in Britain (with A J Harrison), 1978
Lectures on Public Economics (with J E Stiglitz), 1980
Social Justice and Public Policy, 1982
Parents and Children (with A K Maynard and C G Trinder), 1983
Poverty and Social Security, 1989
Empirical Studies of Earnings Mobility (with F Bourguignon and C Morrisson), 1992
Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Distribution of Income (with J Micklewright), 1992
Public Economics in Action, 1995
Income Distribution in OECD Countries (with L Rainwater and T Smeeding), 1995
Incomes and the Welfare State, 1996
Poverty in Europe, 1998
The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State, 1999
Social Indicators (with B Cantillon, E Marlier and B Nolan), 2002