Sir James Mirrlees

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Trinity_College,_Cambridge
gptkb:University_of_Edinburgh
gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:Fellow_of_the_British_Academy
gptkb:Fellow_of_the_Econometric_Society
gptkb:Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society
gptkb:Knight_Bachelor
gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
gptkbp:birthDate 1936-07-05
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Minnigaff,_Scotland
gptkbp:deathDate 2018-08-29
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Cambridge,_England
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Richard_Stone
gptkbp:doctoralStudent gptkb:Nicholas_Stern
gptkb:Hyun_Song_Shin
gptkbp:employer gptkb:Chinese_University_of_Hong_Kong
gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkb:University_of_Oxford
gptkbp:field economics
welfare economics
microeconomics
public economics
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:James_Alexander_Mirrlees
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sir James Mirrlees
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:government
contract theory
mechanism design
optimal income taxation theory
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Mirrlees_Review
Mirrlees model
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:British_Academy
gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkb:Econometric_Society
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:NobelPrizeSharedWith gptkb:William_Vickrey
gptkbp:NobelPrizeYear 1996
gptkbp:notableWork theory of incentives under asymmetric information
theory of optimal taxation
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:economist
gptkbp:positionHeld Professor of Political Economy, University of Cambridge
Master of Morningside College, Chinese University of Hong Kong
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:An_Exploration_in_the_Theory_of_Optimum_Income_Taxation_(1971)
gptkb:Optimal_Taxation_and_Public_Production_I:_Production_Efficiency_(1971)
gptkb:Optimal_Taxation_and_Public_Production_II:_Tax_Rules_(1972)
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Presbyterianism
gptkbp:residence gptkb:Cambridge,_England
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Patricia_Mirrlees
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:King's_College,_Cambridge
gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4