James Mirrlees

Sir James Mirrlees

Born(1936-07-05)5 July 1936
Minnigaff, Scotland
Died29 August 2018(2018-08-29) (aged 82)
Cambridge, England
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of Edinburgh (MA)
Trinity College, Cambridge (PhD)
Academic career
InstitutionChinese University of Hong Kong
Oxford University
University of Cambridge
FieldPolitical economics
Doctoral
advisor
Richard Stone
Doctoral
students
Partha Dasgupta
Nicholas Stern
Peter J. Hammond[1]
Franklin Allen
Barry Nalebuff
Geoffrey M. Heal
Huw Dixon
Anthony Venables
John Vickers
Alan Manning
Gareth Myles
Paul Seabright
Hyun-Song Shin
Zhang Weiying
ContributionsAsymmetric information
Moral Hazard
Optimal income taxation
Zero population growth
Spence–Mirrlees condition
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1996)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Sir James Alexander Mirrlees FRSE FBA (5 July 1936 – 29 August 2018) was a British economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in the 1997 Birthday Honours.

  1. ^ Hammond, Peter J. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Peter J. Hammond's Personal Home Page. Retrieved 28 January 2017.

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