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Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge
Fellow of Trinity College
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Research Interests
Optimal income taxation (a) when incomes are determined by "competition" in the sense of races, (b) when labour substitutability is low, (c) when some work is always desirable; on the policy implications of imperfect rationality; and on principal/agent situations with multidimensional choice variables.
Publications 1996-
- Mirrlees, J. (1998), "The Theory of Moral Hazard, Part I", Review of Economic Studies (forthcoming).
- Mirrlees, J. (1997), "The Economics of Ageing Populations", Royal Society/British Academy Conference on Ageing, May 1997 (forthcoming).
- Mirrlees, J. (1997), "Optimum Taxation and Information", IIPF Congress, August 1997, forthcoming in Conference Volume.
- Mirrlees, J. (1997), "Information and Incentives: The Economics of Carrots and Sticks", The Economic Journal, 107, 444, pp. 1311-1329.
- Mirrlees, J. (1996), "Information and Incentives: The Economics of Carrots and Sticks", Reprint from Les Prix Nobel, 1996, Stockholm, Norstedts Tryckeri.
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