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    After Attica

    After Attica

    March 8, 2015

    Radio Open Source | With guests Bruce Western, Heather Ann Thompson, and Azan Reid

    Anthony Abraham Jack

    Advice to students: Don’t be afraid to ask for help

    March 6, 2020

    Harvard Gazette | "At 11:43 a.m. on Aug. 10, 2015, I sent an email. And it changed my life." Anthony Abraham Jack argues we need to recast what it means to ask for help--not a sign of weakness, but a skill to be honed. Jack is Assistant Professor of Education and a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

    Douglas W. Elmendorf

    Advice for the New President and Congress

    April 8, 2017

    Harvard Graduate School Alumni Day | By Douglas Elmendorf, Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy, who delivered the keynote address at Harvard GSAS Alumni Day 2017.

    Addressing Economic Challenges in an Evolving Health Care Market [Event]

    Addressing Economic Challenges in an Evolving Health Care Market [Event]

    October 7, 2015

    The Hamilton Project  | Amitabh Chandra, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, participated in a policy forum addressing economic challenges in an evolving health care market, with a focus on three new papers released in conjunction with the event. The event, held at The Brookings Institution, featured opening remarks by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, and framing remarks by CEA Chairman Jason Furman.  View papers, presentation slides, and event video online.

    PBS NewsHour Making Sen$e

    Achieving the American Dream may depend on where you live

    October 26, 2017
    PBS NewsHour Making Sen$e | The economists Nathaniel Hendren and Raj Chetty have co-authored studies on social mobility and income inequality. Hendren, who teaches at Harvard University, and Chetty, who teaches at Stanford University, recently spoke with PBS NewsHour’s Paul Solman for Thursday’s Making $ense segment. Here is an excerpt of their conversation, which was edited for length and clarity.

    A Tribute to Sir Tony Atkinson

    January 3, 2017

    Canberra Times | By Andrew Leigh (Ph.D. '04). If you've ever referred to "the 1 per cent", you're using the work of Tony Atkinson. Tony, who died on January 1, aged 72, contributed as much as any modern economist to the study of poverty and inequality...(more)

    Andrew Leigh met Tony Atkinson as an Inequality & Social Policy doctoral fellow in 2002, when Atkinson was invited to Harvard to present his work in the Inequality Seminar Series. As part of his visit, Atkinson also joined our proseminar workshop for doctoral fellows, where he served as a discussant for Andrew's research paper. Atkinson and Leigh subsequently went on to co-author a set of papers together examining inequality trends in Australia and New Zealand.

    Andrew Leigh is now shadow assistant treasurer (Australia), and a former professor of economics at the Australian National University.

    Inequality: What Can Be Done?, by Anthony B. Atkinson

    Tony Atkinson was an extraordinary human being. He was an economist by trade, who did more than anyone else to keep the study of income inequality alive from the 1960s to the mid-1990s, when most of his colleagues were either ignoring the subject or denying its importance.

    He seemed to treat everyone he encountered, from the grandees of his profession to young graduate students, with decency and respect, and devoted thousands of hours to advancing other people's projects.

    But he also cared deeply about persuading us all that rich countries could achieve low levels of economic inequality without suffering large reductions in economic efficiency or growth. Anyone who who has not read his last book, (Inequality: What Can Be Done?) should do so. 

    —Christopher Jencks Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Emeritus


    Inequality: What Can Be Done?
    By Anthony B. Atkinson, Harvard University Press, 2015.

    Tony Atkinson: Articles
    Read more of Tony Atkinson's work at his personal website, where he selected what he thought were his most important articles in 15 topical areas.

    Anthony B. Atkinson, Economist Who Pioneered Study of Inequality, Dies at 72
    The New York Times

    Passing of Anthony B. Atkinson
    Le Monde (blog) | By Thomas Piketty. "Together with Simon Kuznets, Atkinson single-handedly originated a new discipline within the social sciences and political economy: the study of historical trends in the distribution of income and wealth."

    Anthony Atkinson, a British economist and expert on inequality
    The Economist

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