Frank Cowell Explained

Frank Cowell
Discipline:	Economics
Sub Discipline:	Microeconomics
Professor
Alma Mater:	Ardingly College University of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)

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

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

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

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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frank Alan Cowell . 25 June 2024 . IDEAS.
2. Web site: Frank Cowell - CV . London School of Economics . 4 July 2024.
3. Web site: Frank Cowell . . 29 August 2021.
4. Reviews of Measuring Inequality:
   • R. J. Nicholson (1978), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A,
   • Carsten Schröder (2011), Journal of Economics,,
5. Review of Microeconomic Principles:Alistair Ulph (1988), Economica,
6. Reviews of Cheating the Government:
   • M. Bordignon (1990), Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali,
   • Gerald Caiden (1991), "Who Is Cheating Whom?", Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory,
   • Gunnar Thorlund Jepsen (1991), European Journal of Political Economy,
   • Robert J. Rolfe (1991), The Accounting Review,
   • Wallace F. Smith (1991), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
   • Wulf Gaertner (1992), Economica,
   • R. Neck (1992), Journal of Economics,
   • Ann Dryden Witte (1992), Journal of Economic Literature,
7. Reviews of Economic Inequality and Income Distribution:
   • L. F. Groot (2000), Journal of Income Distribution,, https://jid.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jid/article/view/603
   • Patrick Moyes (2000), Social Choice and Welfare,
   • Thomas Piketty (2000), Economica,
   • Peter Gottschalk (2001), The Economic Journal,
   • Markus Jäntti (2001), Journal of Economic Literature,
8. Reviews of Thinking about Inequality:
   • Andrea Brandolini (2001), The Economic Journal,
   • S.-C. Kolm (2001), Journal of Economics,
   • Richard Barrett (2002), Social Choice and Welfare,
   • Maria del Mar Racionero (2002), Economic Record,
   • Christian Seidl (2002), Journal of Economic Literature,