
James Mirrlees
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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Minnigaff
- Educated at
- University of EdinburghTrinity CollegeDouglas Ewart High SchoolUniversity of Cambridge
- Awards
- 🏆 honorary doctor of the Peking University🏆 honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong🏆 Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Richard Stone
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford📖 Franklin Allen
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Trending topics shown first"An approximately linear income tax schedule is desirable; and in particular negative income tax proposals are strongly supported,"
"Economics takes a while to learn, even if much of it is in a way quite simple. It is simple to be wrong as well as to be right, and it is none too easy to distinguish between them."
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Timeline
1936
Born
Birth2018
Died
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