Acknowledgments

Tony Atkinson; François Bourguignon

First, we would like to thank Ken Arrow and Mike Intriligator for having persuaded us back in 2010 that the time was ripe for a new volume. How prescient their advice was!

In the course of preparing the new Handbook volume, we have incurred many debts. Without the—more than 50—authors, there would be no Handbook, and we would like to thank them sincerely for the cooperative spirit in which they have produced such excellent chapters. We much appreciate the way in which they responded to several rounds of comments from the editors and (usually) met deadlines. Part of preparation took the form of an Author's conference, entitled “Recent Advances in the Economics of Income Distribution” that ...

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