Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation

James A. Mirrlees is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College. He was previously Edgeworth Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford (1968-95). In 1996 he won the Nobel Prize for Economics for fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information. His research interests are optimal income taxation; policy implications of imperfect rationality; and principal/agent situations with multidimensional choice variables.

PART I: WELFARE ECONOMICS ; PART II: TAX THEORY ; PART III: PUBLIC EXPENDITURE ; PART IV: CONTRACT THEORY ; PART V: GROWTH THEORY ; PART VI: DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS