Frank Cowell

{{Short description|English economist}}

{{Infobox academic

| name = Frank Cowell

| occupation = {{hlist | University teacher | writer | editor}}

| discipline = Economics

| sub_discipline = Microeconomics

| title = Professor

| alma_mater = Ardingly College
University of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)

| workplaces = {{hlist | London School of Economics and Political Science | Keele University}}

| notable_works =

}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

Frank Alan Cowell{{Cite web |title=Frank Alan Cowell |url=https://ideas.repec.org/e/pco132.html |url-status= |access-date=25 June 2024 |website=IDEAS}} is a professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His work includes important contributions to the fields of income and wealth distribution, inequality, poverty and taxation.

Biography

Cowell was educated at Ardingly College before entering Trinity College, Cambridge where he completed his BA (1971), MA (1975) and PhD (1977) in Economics. Cowell was briefly Lecturer in Economics at University of Keele before moving to LSE in 1977. He was also Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Economics from 1988 until 2001.{{cite web |title=Frank Cowell - CV |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127144002/http://darp.lse.ac.uk/frankweb/Frank/cv.asp |website=London School of Economics |access-date=4 July 2024}}

Cowell is the former editor of Economica, a former associate editor of Hacienda Pública Española/Revista de Economia Publica, and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Economic Inequality. He is also the Director of Distributional Analysis Research Programme at the Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines.

He has an h-index of 55 according to Google Scholar.{{cite web |title=Frank Cowell |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3vZeSLwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra |website=Google Scholar |access-date=29 August 2021}}

Selected Publications

  • {{Cite book |last=Cowell |first=Frank |title=Measuring Inequality: Techniques for the Social Sciences |publisher=Wiley |year=1977 |isbn=9780470993491 |edition=First |author-mask=6}} (193 pages). 2nd ed., Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, {{ISBN|9780134343662}}, 1995. 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|9780199594030}}, 2011.Reviews of Measuring Inequality:
  • R. J. Nicholson (1978), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, {{JSTOR|2344833}}
  • Carsten Schröder (2011), Journal of Economics, {{doi|10.1007/s00712-011-0211-2}}, {{ProQuest|899588559}}

  • {{Cite book |last=Cowell |first=Frank |title=Microeconomic Principles |publisher=Philip Allan |date=1 September 1986 |isbn=9780860030676 |author-mask=6}} (413 pages).Review of Microeconomic Principles:

Alistair Ulph (1988), Economica, {{JSTOR|2554484}}

  • {{Cite book |last=Cowell |first=Frank |title=Cheating the Government: The Economics of Evasion |date=1 June 1990 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=9780262031530 |author-mask=6}} (267 pages).Reviews of Cheating the Government:
  • M. Bordignon (1990), Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, {{JSTOR|41623095}}
  • Gerald Caiden (1991), "Who Is Cheating Whom?", Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, {{JSTOR|1181749}}
  • Gunnar Thorlund Jepsen (1991), European Journal of Political Economy, {{doi|10.1016/0176-2680(91)90058-B}}
  • Robert J. Rolfe (1991), The Accounting Review, {{JSTOR|247768}}
  • Wallace F. Smith (1991), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, {{JSTOR|1046532}}
  • Wulf Gaertner (1992), Economica, {{JSTOR|2554610}}
  • R. Neck (1992), Journal of Economics, {{JSTOR|41794219}}
  • Ann Dryden Witte (1992), Journal of Economic Literature, {{JSTOR|2727725}}
  • {{Cite book |last2=Cowell |first2=Frank |title=Economic Inequality and Income Distribution |last1=Champernowne |first1=D. G. |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1999 |isbn= |author2-mask=6}}Reviews of Economic Inequality and Income Distribution:
  • L. F. Groot (2000), Journal of Income Distribution, {{doi|10.1016/S0926-6437(00)00014-7}}, [https://jid.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jid/article/view/603]
  • Patrick Moyes (2000), Social Choice and Welfare, {{JSTOR|41106388}}
  • Thomas Piketty (2000), Economica, {{JSTOR|2601667}}
  • Peter Gottschalk (2001), The Economic Journal, {{JSTOR|2667962}}
  • Markus Jäntti (2001), Journal of Economic Literature, {{JSTOR|2698323}}

  • {{Cite book |last2=Cowell |first2=Frank |title=Thinking about Inequality: Personal Judgment and Income Distributions |last1=Amiel |first1=Yoram |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1999 |isbn= |author2-mask=6}} (163 pages).Reviews of Thinking about Inequality:
  • Andrea Brandolini (2001), The Economic Journal, {{JSTOR|2667917}}
  • S.-C. Kolm (2001), Journal of Economics, {{JSTOR|41794858}}
  • Richard Barrett (2002), Social Choice and Welfare, {{JSTOR|41106445}}
  • Maria del Mar Racionero (2002), Economic Record, {{ProQuest|219666950}}
  • Christian Seidl (2002), Journal of Economic Literature, {{JSTOR|2698394}}

  • {{Cite book |last=Cowell |first=Frank |title=Microeconomics: Principles and Analysis |date=1 June 2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199267774 |edition=First |author-mask=6}} (672 pages). 2nd ed., 2018.

References

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