Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson was a British economist, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and senior research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.
Tony Atkinson at the Festival of Economics in Trento, May 2015
Max Roser is a German economist and philosopher who focuses on global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.
Tony Atkinson
…Several have remarked on Atkinson's optimism that progress is possible. Atkinson's colleague Max Roser wrote that 'one of [Atkinson's] convictions – apparent in all his writing – was that high levels of economic inequality are not inevitable. Even when…