Date: Tuesday 30 October 2007
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Sir Tony Atkinson
Chair: Professor Lord Meghnad Desai

This lecture explores some of the implications of adopting (or returning to) a global approach to welfare economics, examines the long-run evolution of the world distribution of income, and investigates the roles of global taxation and of private philanthropy.

Tony Atkinson is senior research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.

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