James Mirrlees

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James Mirrlees is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, University of Oxford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Edinburgh, University of Cambridge

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According to Wikipedia, 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. Early life and education Born in Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Mirrlees was educated at Douglas Ewart High School, then at the University of Edinburgh and Trinity College, Cambridge . He was a very active student debater. A contemporary, Quentin Skinner, has suggested that Mirrlees was a member of the Cambridge Apostles along with fellow Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen during the period.

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James Mirrlees's Published Works

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An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation (1971) (4216)
Optimal Taxation and Public Production I: Production Efficiency, II: Tax Rules (1971) (1415)
Optimal Taxation and Public Production II: Tax Rules (1971) (929)
The Optimal Structure of Incentives and Authority Within an Organization (1976) (851)
The Theory of Moral Hazard and Unobservable Behaviour: Part I (1999) (650)
Optimal tax theory: A synthesis (1976) (565)
A New Model of Economic Growth (1962) (413)
Maximization and the Act of Choice (2007) (342)
Notes on Welfare Economics, Information, and Uncertainty (2006) (338)
Tax By Design: The Mirrlees Review (2011) (332)
The Optimum Town (1972) (225)
A Model of Social Insurance With Variable Retirement (1978) (187)
The theory of optimal taxation (2005) (181)
Tax by design (2011) (142)
Migration and optimal income taxes. (1982) (135)
Dimensions of tax design : the Mirrlees review (2010) (127)
Optimum Growth when Technology is Changing (1967) (96)
Evaluating Economics Research in Europe: An Introduction (2003) (96)
Information and Incentives: The Economics of Carrots and Sticks (1997) (93)
Fairly good plans (1972) (89)
On Producer Taxation (1972) (87)
Payroll-Tax Financed Social Insurance with Variable Retirement (1986) (86)
A Pure Theory of Underdeveloped Economies (2006) (85)
Optimal taxation in a stochastic economy: A Cobb–Douglas example (1980) (67)
Utilitarianism and beyond: The economic uses of utilitarianism (1982) (63)
Private Constant Returns and Public Shadow Prices (1976) (61)
Manual of Industrial Project Analysis in Developing Countries. Vol. I Methodology and Case Studies. Annex to Vol. I Industrial Profiles.@@@Manual of Industrial Project Analysis in Developing Countries. Vol. II. Social Cost Benefit Analysis. (1970) (61)
The Desirability of Natural Resource Depletion (1975) (59)
Aggregate Production with Consumption Externalities (1973) (56)
The Mirrlees Review: Conclusions and Recommendations for Reform† (2011) (56)
The Dynamic Nonsubstitution Theorem (1969) (47)
Population policy and the taxation of family size (1972) (47)
Cost-Benefit Analysis: The costs and benefits of analysis: Project appraisal and planning twenty years on (1994) (45)
Chapter 24 The theory of optimal taxation (1986) (44)
Taxing Uncertain Incomes (1990) (41)
Social Insurance with Variable Retirement and Private Saving (1982) (36)
On the Assignment of Liability: The Uniform Case (1975) (32)
The economic consequences of ageing populations. (1997) (31)
Social cost benefit analysis (1968) (30)
Optimum saving with economies of scale (1975) (29)
THE MIRRLEES REVIEW: A PROPOSAL FOR SYSTEMATIC TAX REFORM (2012) (29)
The Evaluation of National Income in an Imperfect Economy (1969) (28)
Models of Economic Growth (1973) (27)
The Emerging Nations: Their Growth and United States Policy. (1965) (27)
Social benefit-cost analysis and the distribution of income (1978) (24)
Optimal Taxation and Government Finance (2006) (21)
Welfare, Incentives, And Taxation (2006) (21)
Theories of economic growth (1973) (20)
Social security reform in China: issues and options (2005) (18)
Economic Policy and Nonrational Behavior (1987) (18)
Insurance Aspects of Pensions (1985) (16)
Project Appraisal and Planning for Development Countries. (1975) (16)
Private risk and public action: The economics of the welfare state (1995) (15)
Optimum Accumulation Under Uncertainty: the Case of Stationary Returns to Investment (1974) (14)
Optimal Taxation and the Le Chatelier Principle (2002) (13)
Adjusting One ' s Standard of Living : Two-Period Models (2001) (13)
Strategies in the principal-agent model (2013) (11)
Global Public Economics (2004) (7)
Models of economic growth : proceedings of a conference held by the International Economic Association at Jerusalem (1973) (7)
Welfare Economics and Economies of Scale (1995) (5)
Nonlinear Pricing under Bounded Rationality (2009) (4)
ADB Distinguished Speakers Program: Poverty and Redistribution in Emerging Economies (2011) (4)
Capital and Inequality (2016) (4)
A REPLY TO SOME CRITICISMS OF THE OECD MANUAL (2009) (3)
Optimum planning for a dynamic economy (1964) (3)
India: Planning for Industrialization.@@@Pakistan: Industrialization and Trade Policies. (1973) (2)
Mirrlees Review of tax system recommends radical changes (2010) (2)
Operations Research Techniques for Capital Investment by F. Hanssmann. New York: Wiley and Sons, 1968. (1969) (2)
Approaches to Dynamic Investment Planning: Contributions to Economics Analysis. (1963) (1)
A PROPOSAL FOR SYSTEMATIC TAX REFORM (2013) (1)
Comments on P. G. Hare and D. T. Ulph (1981) (1)
Are recessions inevitable? (2010) (1)
Principal-Agent Problems Revisited Part Ii: Dynamic Models (2006) (1)
Taxing by design (2010) (1)
Economic Policy and Nonrational Behavior - eScholarship (1987) (1)
Choice of techniques (2019) (0)
FcLEF COPY Project Appraisal and Planning Twenty Years On (0)
Comments on chapter : Taxing corporate income (2010) (0)
Optimum Saving with Economies of Scale Author ( s ) : (2007) (0)
As of today, 30 Nobel Laureates have endorsed the attached January 19, 2016, H.R. Network's Statement to the Government of Turkey regarding the plight of hundreds of Turkish academic colleagues. (2016) (0)
Strategies in the principal-agent model (2012) (0)
Summary of the Final Discussion (1973) (0)
Tax by design: overview (2010) (0)
Working Paper Department of Economics Private Constant Returns and Public Shadow Prices (0)
Mirrlees Review of tax system published (2011) (0)
American Economic Association Optimal Taxation and Public Production I : Production Efficiency Author ( s ) : (2007) (0)
Principal-Agent Problems Revisited Part I: Static Models (2006) (0)
Arguments for Public Expenditure (2006) (0)
Interview with Nobel Prize Laureate James A. Mirrlees (2004) (0)
Incentives and Enterprise (1998) (0)
Choice of techniques (2019) (0)
Interview of Sir James Mirrlees (2009) (0)
James A. Mirrlees, William S. Vickrey, George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz (2010) (0)
Inequality: Comments, Questions, and Answers (2016) (0)
Comments on R. P. Inman (1981) (0)

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