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Thomas Piketty reviews Anthony Atkinson’s new book Inequality:
What Can Be Done?
“To fully appreciate this book and its proposals,
we should first place it in the larger setting of Atkinson’s career, for he has
mainly produced the work of an infinitely cautious and rigorous scholar.
Between 1966 and 2015, Atkinson published fifty or so books and more than 350
scholarly articles. They have brought about a profound transformation in the
broader field of international studies of the distribution of wealth,
inequality, and poverty. Since the 1970s, he has also written major theoretical
papers, devoted in particular to the theory of optimal taxation, and these
contributions alone would justify several Nobel Prizes. But Atkinson’s most
important and profound work has to do with the historical and empirical
analysis of inequality, carried out with respect to theoretical models that he
deploys with impeccable mastery and utilizes with caution and moderation. With
his distinctive approach, at once historical, empirical, and theoretical; with
his extreme rigor and his unquestioned probity; with his ethical reconciliation
of his roles as researcher in the social sciences and citizen of, respectively,
the United Kingdom, Europe, and the world, Atkinson has himself for decades
been a model for generations of students and young researchers.”
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