James A. Mirrlees

James A. Mirrlees, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1936-07-05 in Minnigaff, Scotland

Gender: male

Field: British Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences

Biography

Sir James Alexander Mirrlees was a British economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in the 1997 Birthday Honours.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1996

Awarded on: 1996-10-08

"for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information"

Affiliations:

  • University of Cambridge – Cambridge, United Kingdom
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