James Mirrlees
British Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Sir James Mirrlees | |
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Born | (1936-07-05)5 July 1936 Minnigaff, Scotland |
Died | 29 August 2018(2018-08-29) (aged 82) Cambridge, England |
Nationality | British |
Education | University of Edinburgh (MA) Trinity College, Cambridge (PhD) |
Academic career | |
Institution | Chinese University of Hong Kong Oxford University University of Cambridge |
Field | Political 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 |
Contributions | Asymmetric information Moral Hazard Optimal income taxation Zero population growth Spence–Mirrlees condition |
Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1996) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
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