Mirrlees, James A

LC control no.	n 85378710
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Mirrlees, James A. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Mirrlees, J. A. (James A.)
Located	England
Birth date	1936-07-05
Death date	2018-08-29
Place of birth	Minnigaff (Scotland)
Place of death	England
Field of activity	Economics
Affiliation	Chinese University of Hong Kong University of Oxford University of Cambridge
Profession or occupation	Economists
Found in	His Economic policy and nonrational behaviour, 1987: t.p. (James A. Mirrlees) LC data base, 8-6-87 (hdg.: Mirrlees, James A.; usage: J.A. Mirrlees) Wikipedia, viewed March 16, 2016 (Sir James Alexander Mirrlees FRSE FBA (born 5 July 1936) is a Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in 1998. Institution: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Oxford University, University of Cambridge) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mirrlees> Washington post WWW site, viewed Sept. 3, 2018 (James A. Mirrlees, a British economist who won the Nobel Prize for his theories of economic incentives, which have been applied to taxation, insurance and the allocation of public services, died Aug. 29 [2018] at his home near Cambridge, England; he was 82; his death was announced by Nuffield College of the University of Oxford, where he was a longtime professor; James Alexander Mirrlees was born July 5, 1936, in Minnigaff, Scotland; studied mathematics at Scotland's University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1957, then enrolled at the University of Cambridge in England, obtaining degrees in mathematics and economics before receiving his doctorate in economics in 1963; joined the Oxford faculty in 1968; advised Asian and African governments on economic policy before returning to Cambridge in 1995; later had a faculty appointment at the Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Associated language	eng