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James A. Mirrlees, 1936-

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Welfare theorist and public finance economist at Trinity College, Cambridge.

James A. Mirrlees won the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1996, along with William Vickrey.

 

  


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Major Works of James A. Mirrlees

  • "A New Model of Economic Growth", with N. Kaldor, 1962, RES
  • "Optimum Growth When Technology is Changing", 1967, RES
  • "The Dynamic Nonsubstitution Theorem", 1969, RES
  • "The Evaluation of National Income in an Imperfect Economy", 1969, Pak Dev Review
  • "Optimal Taxation and Public Production", with P.A. Diamond, 1971, AER
  • "An Exploration in the Theory of Optimal Income Taxation", 1971, RES
  • "On Producer Taxation", 1972, RES
  • "Agreeable Plans", with P.J. Hammond, 1973, in Mirrlees and Stern, editors, Models of Economic Growth
  • "Aggregate Production with Consumption Externalities",with P.A. Diamond, 1973, QJE
  • Project Appraisal and Planning for Developing Countries, with I.M.D. Little, 1974
  • "Optimal Accumulation under Uncertainty: the Case of Stationary Returns to Investment", 1974, Dreze, editor Allocation under Uncertainty
  • "Notes on Welfare Economics, Information and Uncertainty", 1974, in Balch et al., editors, Essays in Equilibrium Behavior under Uncertainty
  • "Optimal Taxation in a Two-Class Economy", 1975, JPubE
  • "Optimum Saving with Economies of Scale", with A.K. Dixit and N.H. Stern, 1975, RES
  • "A Pure Theory of Underdeveloped Economies using a Relationship between Consumption and Productivity", 1975, in Reynolds, editor, Agriculture in Development Theory
  • "Optimal Tax Theory: A synthesis", 1976, JPubE
  • "Private Constant Returns and Public Shadow Prices" with P.A. Diamond, 1976, RES
  • "A Model of Social Insurance with Retirement", with P.A. Diamond, 1977, JPubE
  • "The Economic Uses of Utilitarianism", 1982, in Sen and Williams, editor, Utilitarianism and Beyond
  • "Optimal Foreign-income taxation", 1982, JPubE
  • "The Theory of Optimal Taxation", 1986, in Arrow and Intriligator, Handbook of Mathematical Economics, Vol. III.
  • "Payroll-tax financed social insurance with variable retirement"with P.A. Diamond, 1986, Scand JE
  • "Taxing Uncertain Incomes", 1990,Oxford EP
  • "Optimal Taxation of Identical Consumers when markets are incomplete", with P.A. Diamond, 1992, in Dasgupta et al, editors, Economic Analysis of Markets and Games

 


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