James Mirrlees

James Alexander Mirrlees ( born July 5, 1936 in Minnigaff, Scotland ) is a British economist.

Life

James Alexander Mirrlees was awarded in 1996 with William Vickrey price of Economics at the Swedish Riksbank in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his contributions to the economic theory of incentives under different degrees of information among market participants.

His findings had a direct influence on the tariff policy of insurance and tax policy. It was 1962/63 at the Center for International Studies at New Delhi in India operate. He studied mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and received his PhD in 1963 at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he worked as a lecturer in economics until 1966. From 1968 to 1995 he was a professor at the University of Oxford. Since 1995 he has been a professor of political economy at the University of Cambridge.

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

Work

• An exploration in the theory of optimum income taxation (1971 )
• Social benefit-cost analysis and the distribution of income (1978 )