wever, Ravi Kanbur’s piece is more than a conventional book review: it also pays appropriate
tribute to Sir Tony Atkinson, the scholar whose pioneering research led to so much of the
modern theoretical and empirical work in the field of economic inequality and who died on
1st January 2017.
The Journal will be acknowledging this pioneering research by publishing three special
issues devoted to three subfields that were opened up through Tony Atkinson’s great insight
and hard work. We hope that the first of these three issues will appear in December 2017.

• Editorial introduction, journal of economic inequality, June 2017