His impact on economics went far beyond optimal taxes and contract theory
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Sir James Mirrlees, a Nobel-prizewinning economist, died on August 29th
The optimal economist WHEN James Mirrlees got the call to say he had won the Nobel prize for economics in 1996, he assumed that a friend was pulling a prank. “Jim politely suggested that it didn’t sound very likely and he’d need some proof,” his wife later recalled. Friends and colleagues say it paints a […]
