James Mirrlees

Sir James Alexander Mirrlees  (5 July 1936 – 29 August 2018) was a Scottish economist. He was the winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in the 1997 Birthday Honours.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.

Mirrlees died on 29 August 2018 in Cambridge, England at the age of 82.

References

Other websites
 Biographic speech from The Chinese University of Hong Kong
 James Mirrlees interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 21 July 2009 (film)

Category:1936 births
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Category:British economists
Category:Scottish academics
Category:Members of Academia Europaea
Category:Nobel Prize in Economics winners