James Mirrlees
Sir James Mirrlees | |
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| Born | 5 July 1936 Minnigaff, Scotland |
| Died | 29 August 2018 (aged 82) Cambridge, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Institution | Chinese University of Hong Kong Oxford University University of Cambridge |
| Field | Political economics |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Stone |
| Doctoral students | Partha Dasgupta Nicholas Stern Peter J. Hammond[1] Franklin Allen Barry Nalebuff Huw Dixon Anthony Venables John Vickers Alan Manning Gareth Myles Paul Seabright Hyun-Song Shin Zhang Weiying |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1996) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Sir James Alexander Mirrlees FRSE FBA (5 July 1936 – 29 August 2018[2][3]) was a Scottish economist. He was the winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in the 1997 Birthday Honours.
Mirrlees died on 29 August 2018 in Cambridge, England at the age of 82.[4]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Hammond, Peter J. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Peter J. Hammond's Personal Home Page. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
- ↑ "Chinese University Nobel laureate James Mirrlees dies aged 82". South China Morning Post. 31 August 2018.
- ↑ Goyal, Sanjeev. "Professor Sir James Mirrlees 1936-2018". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 17 May 2023. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize-Winning Economist James Mirrlees Dies at 82". The New York Times. August 30, 2018. Archived from the original on August 31, 2018. Retrieved September 3, 2018.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Biographic speech from The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- James Mirrlees interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 21 July 2009 (film)[permanent dead link]
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