Department of Economics public lecture
Date: Monday 1 March 2010
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Sir Tony Atkinson
Chair: Professor Alan Manning
Top incomes in Britain are in the news, but today's bonuses and executive remuneration have to be seen in historical perspective. Are top income shares high by the standards of the past? Is Britain different from other countries? What can economic theory tell us about the determinants of top incomes and how they have changed over time?
Sir Tony Atkinson is a British economist and was Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford from 1994-2005. Before that, he held positions at Cambridge, UCL and LSE. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1974, and an Honorary Member of the American Economic Association in 1985, was knighted in 2000, and made a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur in 2001.
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