James A. Mirrlees (1936-)
Premio Nobel 
1996
Economista británico, profesor en
Cambridge University, obtuvo el Premio Nobel de economía en 1996,
compartido con William Vickrey por sus fundamentales
contribuciones a la teoría económica de los incentivos bajo información asimétrica. 
OBRAS
"A New Model of Economic Growth", with N. Kaldor, 1962, RES
"Optimum Growth When Technology is Changing", 1967, RES
"The Dynamic Nonsubstitution Theorem", 1969, RES
"The Evaluation of National Income in an Imperfect Economy", 1969, Pak Dev Review
"Optimal Taxation and Public Production", with P.A. Diamond, 1971, AER
"An Exploration in the Theory of Optimal Income Taxation", 1971, RES
"On Producer Taxation", 1972, RES
"Agreeable Plans", with P.J. Hammond, 1973, in Mirrlees and Stern, editors, Models of Economic Growth
"Aggregate Production with Consumption Externalities",with P.A. Diamond, 1973, QJE
Project Appraisal and Planning for Developing Countries, with I.M.D. Little, 1974
"Optimal Accumulation under Uncertainty: the Case of Stationary Returns to Investment", 1974, Dreze, editor Allocation under Uncertainty
"Notes on Welfare Economics, Information and Uncertainty", 1974, in Balch et al., editors, Essays in Equilibrium Behavior under Uncertainty
"Optimal Taxation in a Two-Class Economy", 1975, JPubE
"Optimum Saving with Economies of Scale", with A.K. Dixit and N.H. Stern, 1975, RES
"A Pure Theory of Underdeveloped Economies using a Relationship between Consumption and Productivity", 1975, in Reynolds, editor, Agriculture in Development Theory
"Optimal Tax Theory: A synthesis", 1976, JPubE
"Private Constant Returns and Public Shadow Prices" with P.A. Diamond, 1976, RES
"A Model of Social Insurance with Retirement", with P.A. Diamond, 1977, JPubE
"The Economic Uses of Utilitarianism", 1982, in Sen and Williams, editor, Utilitarianism and Beyond
"Optimal Foreign-income taxation", 1982, JPubE
"The Theory of Optimal Taxation", 1986, in Arrow and Intriligator, Handbook of Mathematical Economics, Vol. III.
"Payroll-tax financed social insurance with variable retirement"with P.A. Diamond, 1986, Scand JE
"Taxing Uncertain Incomes", 1990,Oxford EP
"Optimal Taxation of Identical Consumers when markets are incomplete", with P.A. Diamond, 1992, in Dasgupta et al, editors, Economic Analysis of Markets and Games
