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Frank Cowell

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Frank Cowell
Occupations
  • University teacher
  • writer
  • editor
TitleProfessor
Academic background
Alma materArdingly College
University of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineEconomics
Sub-disciplineMicroeconomics
Institutions

Frank Alan Cowell[1] 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

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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.[2]

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.[3]

Selected Publications

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  • —————— (1977). Measuring Inequality: Techniques for the Social Sciences (First ed.). Wiley. ISBN 9780470993491. (193 pages). 2nd ed., Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, ISBN 9780134343662, 1995. 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199594030, 2011.[4]
  • —————— (1 September 1986). Microeconomic Principles. Philip Allan. ISBN 9780860030676. (413 pages).[5]
  • —————— (1 June 1990). Cheating the Government: The Economics of Evasion. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262031530. (267 pages).[6]
  • Champernowne, D. G.; —————— (1999). Economic Inequality and Income Distribution. Cambridge University Press.[7]
  • Amiel, Yoram; —————— (1999). Thinking about Inequality: Personal Judgment and Income Distributions. Cambridge University Press. (163 pages).[8]
  • —————— (1 June 2006). Microeconomics: Principles and Analysis (First ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199267774. (672 pages). 2nd ed., 2018.

References

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  1. ^ "Frank Alan Cowell". IDEAS. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Frank Cowell - CV". London School of Economics. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Frank Cowell". Google Scholar. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  4. ^ Reviews of Measuring Inequality:
  5. ^ Review of Microeconomic Principles: Alistair Ulph (1988), Economica, JSTOR 2554484
  6. ^ 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
  7. ^ Reviews of Economic Inequality and Income Distribution:
  8. ^ Reviews of Thinking about Inequality:
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