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James Mirrlees
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Scottish economist (1936-2018)
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James Mirrlees (1936–2018) was an economist recognized by the Nobel Economics collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He is associated with the works *Tax by Design* and *Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation*. His academic output includes five works according to Crossref records.
Mirrlees held an Erdős number of 3. A quote attributed to him states, "The income tax is a much less effective tool for reducing inequalities than has often been thought." He was referenced by 283 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Tax by Design
- Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 85,107x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 68,300x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,877x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,538x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,718x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Economics takes a while to learn, even if much of it is in a way quite simple. It is simple to be wrong as well as to be right, and it is none too easy to distinguish between them.”
- “I must confess that I had expected the rigorous analysis of income taxation in the utilitarian manner to provide arguments for high tax rates. It has not done so.”
- “The income tax is a much less effective tool for reducing inequalities than has often been thought.”
- “An approximately linear income tax schedule is desirable; and in particular negative income tax proposals are strongly supported,”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1936-07-05 ) 5 July 1936, Minnigaff , Scotland
- Died
- 29 August 2018 (2018-08-29) (aged 82), Cambridge , England
- Education
- University of Edinburgh ( MA ), Trinity College, Cambridge ( PhD )
- Doctoral advisor
- Richard Stone
- Discipline
- Political economics
- Institutions
- Chinese University of Hong Kong , Oxford University , University of Cambridge
- Doctoral students
- Partha Dasgupta , Nicholas Stern , Peter J. Hammond , Franklin Allen , Barry Nalebuff , Geoffrey M. Heal , Huw Dixon , Anthony Venables , John Vickers , Alan Manning , Gareth Myles , Paul Seabright , Hyun-Song Shin , Zhang Weiying
- Notable ideas
- Asymmetric information , Moral Hazard , Optimal income taxation , Zero population growth , Spence–Mirrlees condition
- Awards
- Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1996)
- Website
- Information at IDEAS / RePEc
via Wikipedia infobox
Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1996
“for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information”
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir James Alexander Mirrlees FRSE FBA (5 July 1936 – 29 August 2018) 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
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