James Mirrlees shares the Nobel Prize in Economics for theories of incentives under asymmetric information. His analysis of optimal taxation investigated how governments can design policies when people's productivity and effort cannot be observed directly.
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James Alexander Mirrlees
Nobel Prize history for James Alexander Mirrlees based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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