Anthony B. Atkinson

Winner of the Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labour Economics, Princeton University An Economist Best Economics and Business Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year Inequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Curbed in the decades after World War II, it has recently returned with...

The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, a critically important examination of poverty around the world. In this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world's great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, offers an inspiring analysis of a central question: What is poverty and...