James A. Mirrlees
The Nobel Prize in Economics 1996.
Born: 5, Jul, 1936, Minnigaff, Scotland
Died: 29, Aug, 2018, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2