James A. Mirrlees

James A. Mirrlees

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1996

University of Cambridge

“for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information”

James A. Mirrlees was an economist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information. He was affiliated with the University of Cambridge when awarded.

Field
Business & Economics · Microeconomics
Lifespan
1936–2018