In the context of the recent spread of public and academic concern with economic inequality, this paper examines the evolution of British social democratic thinking about inequality, linking this evolution to the changing debates within economics on this issue. The discussion of the economics of inequality focusses upon the pivotal figure of Tony Atkinson, the most important British economic theorist of inequality, but also an important figure in policy debate since the 1970s.

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社会民主与平等问题

在最近公众和学术界对经济不平等的关注蔓延的背景下，本文研究了英国社会民主主义关于不平等的思想的演变，将这种演变与经济学中关于这个问题的不断变化的辩论联系起来。对不平等经济学的讨论集中在托尼·阿特金森（Tony Atkinson）的关键人物身上，他是英国最重要的不平等经济学理论家，也是 1970 年代以来政策辩论中的重要人物。