James A. Mirrlees (1936-2018)

Awarded the Prize “for his fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information.”

British economist. Mirrlees was born on July 5, 1936 at Minnigaff, Scotl. He gained his M.A. in 1957 at Edinburgh University, his Ph.D. in 1963 from Cambridge University. From 1962 to 1963 he was Adviser with M.I.T. Center for International Studies, to India Project in New Delhi; from 1966 to 1968 he was Adviser to Pakistan Institute of Development Economics at Karachi. In 1968 he became Edgeworth Professor of Economics at Oxford in 1995 Professor at University of Cambridge. Mirrlees died on August 29, 2018 in Cambridge, UK.

Major Works:
Manual of Industrial Project Analysis in Developing Countries (1969); Models of Economic Growth (1973); Project Appraisal Planning for Developing Countries (1974)