James Mirrlees
Scottish economist (1936-2018) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir James Alexander Mirrlees FRSE FBA (5 July 1936 – 29 August 2018[2][3]) was a Scottish economist. He was the winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in the 1997 Birthday Honours.
Sir James Mirrlees | |
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| Born | 5 July 1936 Minnigaff, Scotland |
| Died | 29 August 2018 (aged 82) Cambridge, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Institution | Chinese University of Hong Kong Oxford University University of Cambridge |
| Field | Political economics |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Stone |
| Doctoral students | Partha Dasgupta Nicholas Stern Peter J. Hammond[1] Franklin Allen Barry Nalebuff Huw Dixon Anthony Venables John Vickers Alan Manning Gareth Myles Paul Seabright Hyun-Song Shin Zhang Weiying |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1996) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.[4]
Mirrlees died on 29 August 2018 in Cambridge, England at the age of 82.[5]
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