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Sir James Mirrlees | |
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| Born | 5 July 1936 Minnigaff, Scotland |
| Died | 29 August 2018 (aged 82) Cambridge, England |
| Education | University of Edinburgh (MA) Trinity College, Cambridge (PhD) |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Political economics |
| Institution | Chinese University of Hong Kong Oxford University University of Cambridge |
| 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 | |
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.
- ^ Hammond, Peter J. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Peter J. Hammond's Personal Home Page. Retrieved 28 January 2017.