Frank Alan Cowell is a professor of

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at the

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. His work includes important contributions to the fields of income and wealth distribution, inequality, poverty and taxation.

Biography

Cowell was educated at

Ardingly College Ardingly College () is an independent boarding and day school in the English public school tradition located near Ardingly, West Sussex, England. The school is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and of the Woodard Corp ...

before entering

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

where he completed his BA (1971), MA (1975) and PhD (1977) in

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. Cowell was briefly

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University of Keele Keele University, officially known as the University of Keele, is a Public university#United Kingdom, public research university in Keele, approximately from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as the University Coll ...

before moving to

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in 1977. He was also Associate Editor of the ''Journal of Public Economics'' from 1988 until 2001. Cowell is the former editor of ''

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'', a former associate editor of ''Hacienda Pública Española/Revista de Economia Publica'', and the

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of the ''

Journal of Economic Inequality ''The Journal of Economic Inequality'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the study of economic and social inequality. It was established in 2003 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media. The editor-in-chief is Frank ...

''. He is also the Director of Distributional Analysis Research Programme at the Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines. He has an

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of 55 according to

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Selected Publications

* (193 pages). 2nd ed., Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, , 1995. 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, , 2011. * (413 pages). * (267 pages). * * (163 pages).Reviews of ''Thinking about Inequality'': *Andrea Brandolini (2001), ''The Economic Journal'', *S.-C. Kolm (2001), ''Journal of Economics'', *Richard Barrett (2002), ''Social Choice and Welfare'', *Maria del Mar Racionero (2002), ''Economic Record'', *Christian Seidl (2002), ''Journal of Economic Literature'', * (672 pages). 2nd ed., 2018.

References

External links

Frank Cowell's Experts page at the London School of Economics

Frank Cowell's page at the Economics Department at the London School of Economics

(archived at the

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