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42
Citations
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World Ranking
2003
National Ranking
238

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1996 - Nobel Prize for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information
  • 1996 - Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information

Overview

James A. Mirrlees was affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions were recognized primarily for work related to economic theory, particularly in the area of incentives under asymmetric information.

Throughout their academic career, Mirrlees produced work that placed significant focus on the economic theory of incentives, which contributed to their recognition in the field of economics globally.

Mirrlees was acknowledged with several awards during their lifetime. Notably, they received the Nobel Prize in 1996 for fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information. The same year, they were also recognized as a Nobel Memorial Prize laureate in Economics for the same contribution. In 1999, Mirrlees became a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation

    J. A. Mirrlees

  • Optimal Taxation and Public Production II: Tax Rules

    Peter A. Diamond;James A. Mirrlees

  • The Optimal Structure of Incentives and Authority within an Organization

    James A. Mirrlees

  • Project Appraisal and Planning for Developing Countries

    Ian Malcolm David Little;James A. Mirrlees

  • Dimensions of tax design : the Mirrlees review

    James A. Mirrlees;Stuart Adam

  • The Theory of Moral Hazard and Unobservable Behaviour: Part I

    J. A. Mirrlees

  • Optimal Tax Theory: A Synthesis

    James Mirrlees

  • Optimal tax theory: A synthesis

    James A. Mirrlees

  • Politics and business cycles in industrial democracies

    Alberto Alesina

  • A model of social insurance with variable retirement

    Peter A. Diamond;James A. Mirrlees

  • A New Model of Economic Growth

    Nicholas Kaldor;James A. Mirrlees

  • Notes on Welfare Economics, Information, and Uncertainty

    James A. Mirrlees

  • An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation

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  • The Optimum Town

    J. A. Mirrlees

  • A New Model of Economic Growth

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  • Tax By Design: The Mirrlees Review

    James A. Mirrlees;Stuart Adam

  • The Theory of Unemployment Reconsidered.

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  • Tax by design

    James Mirrlees;Stuart Adam;Tim Besley;Richard Blundell

  • The theory of optimal taxation

    James Mirrlees

  • Migration and optimal income taxes

    J.A. Mirrlees

  • Optimum Growth when Technology is Changing

    J. A. Mirrlees

  • Investment and production

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  • EVALUATING ECONOMICS RESEARCH IN EUROPE: AN INTRODUCTION

    J. Peter Neary;James A. Mirrlees;Jean Marcal Pierre Tirole

  • On Producer Taxation

    J. A. Mirrlees

  • Payroll-Tax Financed Social Insurance with Variable Retirement*

    Peter A. Diamond;James A. Mirrlees

  • INFORMATION AND INCENTIVES: THE ECONOMICS OF CARROTS AND STICKS*

    James A. Mirrlees

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas Stern
Nicholas Stern London School of Economics and Political Science
Stephen Bond
Stephen Bond University of Oxford
Timothy Besley
Timothy Besley London School of Economics and Political Science
Richard Blundell
Richard Blundell University College London
Avinash Dixit
Avinash Dixit Princeton University
Jean Tirole
Jean Tirole Toulouse School of Economics
George A. Akerlof
George A. Akerlof Georgetown University
Peter J. Hammond
Peter J. Hammond University of Warwick

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