What is James Mirrlees?
{{Infobox economist | name = Sir James Mirrlees | school_tradition = | color = | image = Sir James Mirrlees.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1936|07|05|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Minnigaff]], Scotland | death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|08|29|1936|07|05|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Cambridge]], England | nationality = British | institution = [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]]<br />[[Oxford University]]<br />[[University of Cambridge]] | field = [[Political economics]] | alma_mater = [[University of Edinburgh]]<br />[[Trinity College, Cambridge]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Richard Stone]] | doctoral_students = [[Partha Dasgupta]]<br>[[Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford|Nicholas Stern]]<br>[[Peter J. Hammond (economist)|Peter J. Hammond]]<ref>{{cite web |url= http://web.stanford.edu/~hammond/pjhCV.pdf |title= Curriculum Vitae |last= Hammond |first= Peter J. |publisher= Peter J. Hammond's Personal Home Page |access-date= 28 January 2017 }}</ref><br>[[Franklin Allen]]<br>[[Barry Nalebuff]]<br>[[Huw Dixon]]<br>[[Anthony Venables]]<br>[[John Vickers]]<br>[[Alan Manning]]<br>[[Gareth Myles]]<br>[[Paul Seabright]]<br>[[Hyun-Song Shin]]<br>[[Zhang Weiying]] | influences = | influenced = [[Iván Werning]], [[Joseph Stiglitz]] | contributions = | awards = [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] (1996) | signature = | repec_prefix = e | repec_id = pmi20 }} {{nobelprize|Economics}}'''Sir James Alexander Mirrlees''' {{Post-nominals|post-noms=[[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|FRSE]] [[British Academy|FBA]]}} (5 July 1936 – 29 August 2018<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/2162167/economist-james-mirrlees-nobel-laureate-and-professor-large|title=Chinese University Nobel laureate James Mirrlees dies aged 82|date=31 August 2018|website=South China Morning Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Goyal |first1=Sanjeev |title=Profe