biography
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Mirrlees, James (Alexander)
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| lived:
| (1936– )
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| biography:
| Economist, born in Minnigaff, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, UK. He studied mathematics at Edinburgh and Cambridge, then taught at Oxford (1969–95) and Cambridge. He shared the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1996 for his work in analyzing the consequences of incomplete financial information. |
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