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James Mirrlees
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Scottish economist (1936-2018)
James Mirrlees was a Scottish economist who lived from 1936 to 2018 and made significant contributions to economic theory. His work matters because it advanced our understanding of how to design fair and efficient economic systems, particularly in areas like taxation and incentive structures.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1936-07-05 ) 5 July 1936, Minnigaff , Scotland
- Died
- 29 August 2018 (2018-08-29) (aged 82), Cambridge , England
- Education
- University of Edinburgh ( MA ), Trinity College, Cambridge ( PhD )
- Doctoral advisor
- Richard Stone
- Discipline
- Political economics
- Institutions
- Chinese University of Hong Kong , Oxford University , University of Cambridge
- Doctoral students
- Partha Dasgupta , Nicholas Stern , Peter J. Hammond , Franklin Allen , Barry Nalebuff , Geoffrey M. Heal , Huw Dixon , Anthony Venables , John Vickers , Alan Manning , Gareth Myles , Paul Seabright , Hyun-Song Shin , Zhang Weiying
- Notable ideas
- Asymmetric information , Moral Hazard , Optimal income taxation , Zero population growth , Spence–Mirrlees condition
- Awards
- Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1996)
- Website
- Information at IDEAS / RePEc
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1996
“for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Minnigaff
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Employer
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Doctoral advisor
- Richard Stone
- Field of work
- economic theory
- Image
- Sir James Mirrlees.jpg
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- James Mirrlees
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- date of birth
- 1936-07-05
- member of
- Econometric Society
- Erdős number
- 3
- name in native language
- James Alexander Mirrlees
- date of death
- 2018-08-29
- interested in
- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Early life and education
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