Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality …, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in the classical sense …

revenues and increase inequality, by reducing the progressivity of the personal tax system. A proposed reform package that …-wage earners would make inroads into poverty and inequality while encouraging formal work. This paper accompanies and extends the …

. Stabilizing their baseline income can make workers more tolerant of inequality. We present evidence of this attitude in the UK by … Survey, we show that workers that benefited from the NMW program became relatively more tolerant of inequality and more …