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.
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Sir James Mirrlees | |
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Born | (1936-07-05)5 July 1936 Minnigaff, Scotland |
Died | 29 August 2018(2018-08-29) (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 | |
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Mirrlees died on 29 August 2018 in Cambridge, England at the age of 82.[4]