Overview

This collection celebrates the career of Sir James Mirrlees, who received the 1996 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on income taxation and its extension to information and incentive problems. His contributions have proved fundamental to the development of a wide range of areas in economics. The 17 papers contained in this volume focus on themes that are representative of Mirrlees' work, including the economics of information, welfare, taxation, project appraisal, and industrial organization. All the contributors have spent time working closely with Mirrlees - either as his co-author or his student - and all are recognized authorities in their fields. The significant new contributions that this collection offers will have wide-ranging appeal, and should prove particularly interesting to scholars working in the areas of microeconomics, microeconomic theory, mathematical economics, and welfare economics.

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Author:   Peter Hammond (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics, University of Stanford) ,  Gareth Myles (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics, University of Exeter)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780199242290

ISBN 10:   0199242291
Pages:   366
Publication Date:   21 December 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Peter J. Hammond and Gareth D. Myles: Introduction 2: Benjamin E. Hermalin and Michael L. Katz: Corporate Diversification and Agency 3: Avinash Dixit: Adverse Selection and Insurance with uberrima fides 4: Patrick Bolton and Christopher Harris: Strategic Experimentation: the Undiscounted Case 5: Hyun Song Shin: Approximate Common Knowledge in a Search Model 6: Partha Dasgupta: Wealth and Welfare 7: Peter Diamond and James Mirrlees: Adjusting One's Standard of Living: Two-Period Models 8: Jun-ichi Itaya, David de Meza, and Gareth D. Myles: Who Should Provide Public Goods? 9: Sudhir Anand: An Optimal Earnings Schedule 10: Ravi Kanbur, Ritva Tarkiainen, and Matti Tuomala: Non-linear Utility Pricing and Targeting the Poor 11: Kevin Roberts: A Reconsideration of the Optimal Income Tax 12: Peter J. Hammond: Reassessing the Diamond-Mirrlees Efficiency Theorem 13: Geoffrey Heal: Valuing Our Future: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Sustainability 14: Athar Hussain, Nicholas Stern, and Joseph Stiglitz: Chinese Reforms from a Comparative Perspective 15: Franklin Allen: Capital Structure and Imperfect Competition in Product Markets 16: Joseph Farrell: Repeated Oligopoly Interaction 17: Barry Nalebuff: Competing against Bundles 18: Anthony J. Venables: On the Optimal Location of Capital

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