
James Mirrlees
- Prize
- Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1996for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric informationTogether with: William Vickrey
- Citizenship
United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 7/5/1936
- place of birth
- Minnigaff
- date of death
- 8/29/2018
- place of death
- Cambridge
- Lived
- 82 years
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- occupation
- university teacher
- economist
- field of work
- economic theory
- economics
- educated at
- University of Edinburgh
- academic degree: Master of Arts
- academic major: natural philosophy
- academic major: mathematics
- end time: 1957
- Trinity College
- academic degree: doctorate
- academic major: mathematics
- end time: 1963
- University of Cambridge
- Douglas Ewart High School
- University of Edinburgh
- employer
- University of California, Berkeley
- start time: 1986
- end time: 1986
- University of Oxford
- start time: 1968
- end time: 1995
- University of Cambridge
- start time: 1963
- end time: 1968
- University of Cambridge
- start time: 1995
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Yale University
- start time: 1989
- end time: 1989
- University of California, Berkeley
- member of
- Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Econometric Society
- start time: 1970
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1999
- Academia Europaea
- start time: 1989
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences
- British Academy
- doctoral student
- Colin Rowat
- Chris J. Harris
- John Fingleton
- Kenjiro Hori
- Azizur Rahman Khan
- Michael David Hamer
- Anindya Banerjee
- Thomas Renström
- Mohammed H. I. Dore
- Seong-Lin Na
- Franklin Allen
- Peter J. Hammond
- Jerry A. Hausman
- Ravi Kanbur
- Paul Seabright
- Joseph Farrell
- Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford
- Barry Nalebuff
- John Vickers
- Alan Manning
- Gareth Myles
- Hyun Song Shin