Frank Cowell

Frank Cowell
Occupations	University teacher writer editor
Title	Professor
Academic background
Alma mater	Ardingly College University of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	Economics
Sub-discipline	Microeconomics
Institutions	London School of Economics and Political Science Keele University

Frank Alan Cowell 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.

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.

Personal life

Cowell was raised as an Anglican, but later joined Jehovah's Witnesses.

Selected Publications

• Cowell, Frank (1974). Income Tax Incidence in an Ageing Population. University of Keele. ISBN 9780900770579. (37 pages).
• —————— (1977). Measuring Inequality: Techniques for the Social Sciences (First ed.). Wiley. ISBN 9780470993491. (193 pages).
• ——————; Weisbrod, Burton; Tienda, Marta; et al. (1979). Energy-related Adaptations in Low Income Nonmetropolitan Wisconsin Counties. Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (22 pages).
• —————— (1979). Income Maintenance Schemes Under Wage-rate Uncertainty. University of Wisconsin–Madison. (30 pages).
• —————— (1980). On the Structure of Additive Inequality Measures. Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin–Madison. (11 pages).
• —————— (1984). Family Splits and Income Inequality. Economic and Social Research Council. (18 pages).
• —————— (1 September 1986). Microeconomic Principles. Philip Allan. ISBN 9780860030676. (413 pages).
• —————— (1987). Honesty is Sometimes the Best Policy. ESRC Programme on Taxation, Incentives and the Distribution of Income. (34 pages).
• —————— (1987). Poverty Measures, Inequality and Decomposability. Taxation, Incentives and the Distribution of Income Programme. (28 pages).
• ——————; Gordon, James P. F. (1989). On Becoming a Ghost: Indirect Tax Evasion and Government Audity Policy. Taxation, Incentives and the Distribution of Income Programme. (37 pages).
• —————— (1 June 1990). Cheating the Government: The Economics of Evasion. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262031530. (267 pages).
• ——————; Amiel, Yoram; Polovin, Avraham (1994). Inequality Among the Kibbutzim. Development Economics Research Programme, Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines. (53 pages).
• —————— (1995). Measuring Inequality (Second ed.). Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf. ISBN 9780134343662. (194 pages).
• —————— (1996). Estimation of Inequality Indices. LSE STICERD. (23 pages).
• ——————; Amiel, Yoram (2000). Attitudes to Risk and Inequality. Distributional Analysis Research Programme LSE. (23 pages).
• ——————; Gardiner, Karen (2000). Welfare Weights. Office of Fair Trading. (43 pages).
• ——————; Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia (2001). Distributional Dominance with Dirty Data. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.(25 pages).
• —————— (1 June 2006). Microeconomics: Principles and Analysis (First ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199267774. (672 pages).
• —————— (4 February 2011). Measuring Inequality (Third ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199594030. (233 pages).
• —————— (12 June 2018). Microeconomics: Principles and Analysis (Second ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198804093. (623 pages).

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
• Frank Cowell's Homepage (archived at the Internet Archive)
• Frank Cowell's CV (archived at the Internet Archive)