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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 .
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1996 was awarded jointly to James A. Mirrlees and William Vickrey "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information"
Aug 29, 2018 · James A. Mirrlees. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1996. Born: 5 July 1936, Minnigaff, Scotland. Died: 29 August 2018, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Aug 29, 2018 · James Mirrlees was a Scottish economist known for his analytic research on economic incentives in situations involving incomplete, or asymmetrical, information. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with William Vickrey of Columbia University.
Curriculum Vitae. Birth: 5 July 1936, Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. Civil Status: Married, 1961-1993, two children. Education. 1941-54. Primary School and Douglas Ewart High School.
Mar 16, 2021 · Sir James Mirrlees has been influential in several areas. With Little he contributed to development economics through ‘the manual’, a practical guide to the use of cost–benefit analysis. He developed the theory of optimal income taxation and in so...
Sep 4, 2018 · James A. Mirrlees, who taught himself calculus as a teenager, became a college professor when he was 32 and received a Nobel award for solving one of government’s greatest economic challenges —...
Aug 31, 2018 · James Mirrlees, who has died aged 82, was the most distinguished living British economist and one of the most influential in the world. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in...
Sep 6, 2018 · WHEN James Mirrlees got the call to say he had won the Nobel prize for economics in 1996, he assumed that a friend was pulling a prank.
Feb 21, 2017 · James Mirrlees was trained as a mathematician at Edinburgh and then Cambridge where he switched to economics. His early work was on continuous time growth models. After moving to Oxford, he applied these techniques to optimal taxation of income and commodities, the...
