James Mirrlees

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James Alexander Mirrlees (born July 5, 1936 in Minnigaff , Scotland , † August 29, 2018 in Cambridge ) was a British economist and Nobel laureate in economics .

Life

In 1996, James Alexander Mirrlees and William Vickrey received the Swedish Reichsbank's Economics Prize in memory of Alfred Nobel for his contributions to the economic theory of incentives at different levels of information for market participants .

Its results had a direct influence on the tariff policy of insurance companies and tax policy . In 1962/63 he worked at the Center for International Studies in New Delhi , India . He studied mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and received his doctorate in 1963 at the Trinity College of Cambridge University , where he as to 1966 lecturer for economics worked. From 1968 to 1995 he was a professor at Oxford University . In 1981 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1984 he was elected a member of the British Academy and in 1989 of the Academia Europaea , in 1999 a member of the National Academy of Sciences . Since 1995 he has held a professorship in political economy at Cambridge University. He taught regularly at the Hong Kong Chinese University .

He was a co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) , which was founded at the end of October 2009 to develop new approaches to economics.

plant

  • An exploration in the theory of optimum income taxation (1971)
  • Models of economic growth (1973)
  • Social benefit-cost analysis and the distribution of income (1978)
  • Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation (2006)
  • Dimensions of tax design (2010)
  • Tax by design (2011)

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Professor Sir James Mirrlees 1936-2018. In: University of Cambridge. Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter M. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
  3. ^ Membership directory: James Mirrlees. Academia Europaea, accessed January 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Obituary James Mirrless , FAZ from 31 August 2018th
  5. ↑ million attack on established economics ; Handelsblatt, November 3, 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Mirrlees, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mirrlees, James Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economist
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Minnigaff , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH 29th August 2018
Place of death Cambridge