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James Mirrlees

Scottish economist (1936-2018) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 82

Sir James Alexander Mirrlees was a British economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in the 1997 Birthday Honours.

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2018Died29 August 20182003Honorary Doctor of the Peking UniversityAward1996Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred NobelAward1970Fellow of the Econometric SocietyAward1936Born5 July 1936

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Honorary Doctor of the Peking University2003
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1996
Fellow of the Econometric Society1970
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellow of the British Academy
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Honorary Doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Knight Bachelor

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Country
United Kingdom
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1936 to 2018 · aged 82