ECONOMIST

Tony Atkinson

1944 - 2017

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Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson (4 September 1944 – 1 January 2017) was a British economist, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and senior research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. A student of James Meade, Atkinson virtually single-handedly established the modern British field of inequality and poverty studies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tony Atkinson has received more than 284,758 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Tony Atkinson is the 256th most popular economist (down from 246th in 2019), the 2,720th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,613th in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Economist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Tony Atkinson ranks 256 out of 414. Before him are Robert Barro, Edward Chamberlin, Alexander Gerschenkron, Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, Fakhruddin Ahmed, and Greg Mankiw. After him are Daron Acemoglu, Eugen Varga, Maurice Dobb, Dennis Meadows, Wilhelm Lexis, and Nouriel Roubini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Tony Atkinson ranks 379. Before him are John Tavener, Alain Souchon, Polycarp Pengo, Harvey Postlethwaite, Pleun Strik, and Aman Tuleyev. After him are Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Bodil Joensen, Botho Strauß, Yang Song-guk, Berta Ambrož, and Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri. Among people deceased in 2017, Tony Atkinson ranks 250. Before him are Gorden Kaye, Vitaly Churkin, Vladimir Petrov, Torgny Lindgren, Željko Perušić, and Eugene Garfield. After him are Svend Asmussen, Ruth Pfau, Gösta Ekman, Marita Lindahl, Ivan Dias, and Derek Parfit.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tony Atkinson ranks 2,720 out of 8,785. Before him are Matthew Locke (1621), John Barnard (1946), Paul Potts (1970), Dennis Stratton (1952), John Rutter (1945), and Brian Connolly (1945). After him are Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841), Chris Vance (1971), Richard Hammond (1969), Francis Beaumont (1584), Ida of Bernicia (450), and Hayley Mills (1946).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, Tony Atkinson ranks 34. Before him are Harold Laski (1893), Israel Kirzner (1930), John A. Hobson (1858), Robert Torrens (1780), Nassau William Senior (1790), and Roy Harrod (1900). After him are Maurice Dobb (1900), Colin Clark (1905), James Steuart (1712), John Neville Keynes (1852), Beatrice Webb (1858), and Thomas Hodgskin (1787).

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