James Mirrlees#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 310 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
James Mirrlees passed away August 29, 2018.
Present and Positions Held
- 2009 Founding Master of the Morningside College of The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- since 1995 Professor of Political Economy, University of Cambridge
- 1968-1995 Professor of Economics, University of Oxford
- 1963-1968 Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer, in Economics, University of Cambridge
- 1963 PhD. in Economics with thesis Optimum Accumulation Under Uncertainty at Cambridge University
- 1954-1957 MA Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University
Fields of Scholarship
- Economic models
- Political economy
Honours and Awards
- J. Mirrlees was knighted in 1998
- 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (jointly with William Vickrey) "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information"
- Member of Scotland's Council of Economic Advisers
- Member of Academia Europea
- Distinguished Professor-at-Large and the Master of Morningside College at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
