10 Facts About James Mirrlees

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

Between 1968 and 1976, James Mirrlees was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology three times.

James Mirrlees was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley and Yale University.

James Mirrlees taught at both Oxford University and University of Cambridge.

James Mirrlees was emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

James Mirrlees spent several months a year at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

James Mirrlees was the Distinguished Professor-at-Large of the Chinese University of Hong Kong as well as University of Macau.

James Mirrlees was a member of Scotland's Council of Economic Advisers.

James Mirrlees led the Mirrlees Review, a review of the UK tax system by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

James Mirrlees died in Cambridge, England, on 29 August 2018.