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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1996

"for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information"
James A. Mirrlees William Vickrey
James A. Mirrlees William Vickrey
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
United Kingdom USA
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom		 Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
b. 1936 b. 1914
(in Victoria, BC, Canada)
d. 1996
 
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