James A. Mirrlees's Birth Card: The 10 of Diamonds

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Sir James Alexander Mirrlees (5 July 1936 – 29 August 2018) was a British economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The birth-card coordinate for July 5 is the 10 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1996 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1996 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information

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James A. Mirrlees in the public record

He was knighted in the 1997 Birthday Honours. Born in Minnigaff, Wigtownshire, Mirrlees was educated at Douglas Ewart High School, then at the University of Edinburgh (MA in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 1957) and Trinity College, Cambridge (Mathematical Tripos and PhD in 1963 with thesis title Optimum Planning for a Dynamic Economy, supervised by Richard Stone). He was a very active student debater. A contemporary, Quentin Skinner, has suggested that Mirrlees was a member of the Cambridge Apostles along with fellow Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen during the period. Between 1968 and 1976, Mirrlees was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology three times. He was also a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1986) and Yale University (1989). He taught at both Oxford University (as Edgeworth Professor of Economics 1968–1995) and University of Cambridge (1963–1968 and 1995–2018). During his time at Oxford, he published papers on economic models for which he would eventually be awarded his Nobel Prize.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article James Mirrlees (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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Born in Minnigaff, Wigtownshire, Mirrlees was educated at Douglas Ewart High School, then at the University of Edinburgh (MA in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 1957) and Trinity College, Cambridge (Mathematical Tripos and PhD in 1963 with thesis title Optimum Planning for a Dynamic Economy, supervised by Richard Stone).

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Also on the record

1. The papers centred on asymmetric information, which determines the extent to which they should affect the optimal rate of saving in an economy.
2. Among other results, he demonstrated the principles of "moral hazard" and "optimal income taxation" discussed in the books of William Vickrey.
3. The methodology has since become the standard in the field.
4. Mirrlees and Vickrey shared the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information".

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