Compiled by PN Junankar, The University of New South Wales. A full bibliography is available at: http://www.tony-atkinson.com/
Books
Poverty in Britain and the Reform of Social Security. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1969 (translated into Japanese).
The Distribution of Personal Wealth in Britain (with AJ Harrison). Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
Lectures on Public Economics (with JE Stiglitz). London, UK: McGraw-Hill, 1980 (translated into Spanish).
Social Justice and Public Policy. Brighton, Sussex: Harvester, 1982, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,1983 (first volume of collected papers).
Economics of Inequality. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1975 (translated into Japanese and Spanish), second edition, 1983.
Poverty and Social Security. New York, NY and London, UK: Harvester Press, 1989 (second volume of collected papers).
Incomes and the Welfare State. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1996 (translated into Japanese) (third volume of collected papers).
Poverty in Europe. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1998 (translated into Italian).
The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
The Changing Distribution of Earnings in OECD Countries. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Public Economics in an Age of Austerity. New York, NY: Routledge, 2014.
Inequality – What Can Be Done? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.
Edited books and reports
Wealth, Income and Inequality (ed.) Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1973; second edition, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1980.
The Personal Distribution of Incomes (ed.) Published for the Royal Economic Society, 1976, Republished Hoboken: Routledge, 2013.
Modern Public Finance (ed.). Two volumes. Aldershot, Hants.: Edward Elgar, 1991.
Handbook of Income Distribution (ed. with F Bourguignon). North Holland: Elsevier, volume 1, 2000 and volume 2A and 2B, 2014.
Atkinson Review: Final Report, Measurement of Government Output and Productivity for the National Accounts. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century (ed. with T Piketty). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Top Incomes: A Global Perspective (ed. with T Piketty). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Published articles and book chapters (a selection from 357 articles and chapters)
1969
The timescale of economic models: how long is the long run? Review of Economic Studies, 36(2): 137-152.
A new view of technological change (with JE Stiglitz), Economic Journal 79(315): 573-578.
1970
On the measurement of inequality. Journal of Economic Theory 2(3): 244-263. A later version of this paper, with bibliography covering the years 1970-1982, is published in Social Justice and Public Policy (ed. AB Atkinson) Brighton, Sussex: Wheatsheaf Books Ltd, 1983, pp. 15-36.
1974
Wealth distribution and investment income in Britain (with AJ Harrison). Review of Income and Wealth series 20: 125-142.
1975
Mortality multipliers and the estate duty method (with AJ Harrison), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 37(1): 13-28.
1976
The design of tax structure: direct versus indirect taxation (with JE Stiglitz). Journal of Public Economics 6: 55-75. Also published in Social Justice and Public Policy (ed. AB Atkinson) Brighton, Sussex: Wheatsheaf Books Ltd, 1983, pp. 223-242.
1977
Economic aspects of reduced smoking (with JL Townsend) The Lancet 2: 492-494.
1981
On intergenerational income mobility in Britain. Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics 3(2): 194-218.
1983
On the measurement of inequality (with bibliography). In Social Justice and Public Policy (ed. AB Atkinson), Brighton, Sussex: Wheatsheaf Books Ltd, pp. 15-36.
1984
Taxation and social security reform: reflections on advising a House of Commons Select Committee. Policy and Politics 12(2): 107-118.
1987
Original Sen. New York Review of Books 22 October: 41-44.
On the measurement of poverty. Econometrica 55(4): 749-764. Walras-Bowley Lecture delivered at the Fifth World Congress of the Econometric Society, August 1985, at MIT. Also published in Poverty and Social Security (ed AB Atkinson) Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989, pp. 25-39.
Income maintenance and social insurance: a Survey. In Handbook of Public Economics (eds A Auerbach and MS Feldstein).Volume 2. North Holland: Elsevier: 779-908.
1989
Trends in the shares of top wealth-holders in Britain, 1923-1981 (with JPF Gordon and AJ Harrison) Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 51(3): 315-332.
The take-up of social security benefits. In Poverty and Social Security (ed. AB Atkinson). Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Wheatsheaf, pp. 190-207
1991
Unemployment compensation and labor market transitions: a critical review (with J Micklewright). Journal of Economic Literature 29(4): 1679-1727.
1993
The Journal of Public Economics at 21 years and 50 volumes: a personal view. Journal of Public Economics, Master Index, Vols 1-50: 1-7.
1996
James Meade’s vision: full employment and social justice. National Institute Economic Review 157(1): 90-96.
2000
James Meade (with M Weale). Proceedings of the British Academy 105: 473-500.
2004
The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS): past, present and future. Socio-Economic Review 2(2): 165-190.
2007
The distribution of top incomes in Australia (with A Leigh). Economic Record 83(262): 247-261.
2009
Factor shares: the principal problem of political economy? Oxford Review of Economic Policy 25(1): 3-16.
2011
Top incomes in the long run of history (with T Piketty and E Saez). Journal of Economic Literature 49(1): 3-71.
2013
The Top 1 Percent in international and historical perspective (with F Alvaredo, T Piketty and E Saez). Journal of Economic Perspectives 27(3): 3-20.
The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the long run (with A Leigh). Economic Record 89(S1): 31-47.
2015
Unveiling the ethics behind inequality measurement: Dalton’s contribution to economics (with A Brandolini). Economic Journal 125(583): 209-221.
