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Nobel Laureate James Mirrlee Speaks in Qizhen Global Vision Lecture Serie

Author  :       Source  :    Zhejiang University     2014-11-13

On November 6, Professor Sir James Mirrlees was invited to deliver a speech on International Capital Flows and Global Inequality in the Qizhen Global Vision Lecture Series (18) at Zhejiang University. Prof. Mirrlees, aged 79, said that “Never giving up is an approach to life. It is crucial that researchers should realize that it takes time to resolve a problem, 20 years or even longer.”

Born in Minnigaff, Scotland, Mirrlees was educated at the University of Edinburgh (MA in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 1957) and Trinity College, Cambridge (Mathematical Tripos and PhD in 1963). From 1968 to 1995 he was Edgeworth Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Nuffield College. From 1995 to 2003, he has served as Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge. In 2006, he was appointed Founding Master of the Morningside College of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Mirrlees has also held visiting professorships at MIT, UC Berkeley, Yale and Melbourne. Mirrlees and William Vickrey shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for Economics “for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information”.

At the lecture, Mirrlees presented the audience with the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information in a vivid fashion, analyzed the defining features and causes of inequality between nations, and made predictions about the trend of international capital flows and global inequality.

Editor: Chen Meina

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