Professor James Mirrlees has been appointed, since August this year, Distinguished Professor in Economics at the University of Macau, being in charge of the establishment of the Economic Research Centre of the University.<\/p>
James was born in Scotland in 1936. He got his Master degree in Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh in 1957. Then he went to Cambridge to read Mathematics. In 1963, he earned his doctorate in Economics from Cambridge University. During the period from 1968 to 1995, he had been appointed the Professor of Economics at Oxford. Later, he was made Professor of Political Economy of the University. He was also the Fellow of the Trinity College.<\/p>
In 1996, James was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his fundamental contribution to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information. He was knighted in 1998. He had also been the president of many associations\/societies in economics. In 1983, he was the President of the Econometric Society. During the period from 1989 to 1992, he had been the President of the Royal Economic Society. In 1998, he was the President of the European Economic Association.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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