James Mirrlees
Scottish economist (1936-2018)
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.
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 | |
Mirrlees died on 29 August 2018 in Cambridge, England at the age of 82.[4]
References
change- ↑ 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- Biographic speech from The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- James Mirrlees interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 21 July 2009 (film)[permanent dead link]