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Working Papers

2004

1. Interview with Nobel Prize Laureate James A. Mirrlees
   Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee

1997

2. Autobiography
   Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee

1996

3. Information and Incentives: The Economics of Carrots and Sticks
   Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee
   See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (1997)

1987

4. Economic Policy and Nonrational Behaviour
   Economics Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley View citations

1982

5. Social Insurance with Variable Retirement and Private Saving
   Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations

1978

6. Optimal Taxation in a Stochastic Economy: A Cobb-Douglas Example
   Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (1980)

1977

7. A Model of Social Insurance With Variable Retirement
   Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (1978)

1976

8. Optimal Tax Theory: A Synthesis
   Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (1976)

1975

9. On the Assignment of Liability: The Uniform Case
   Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
   See also Journal Article in Bell Journal of Economics (1975)
10. Private Constant Returns and Public Shadow Prices
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
    See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Studies (1976)

1968

11. Optimal Taxation and Public Production
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations

Journal Articles

2003

1. Evaluating Economics Research in Europe: An Introduction
   Journal of the European Economic Association, 2003, 1, (6), 1239-1249 View citations

1999

2. The Theory of Moral Hazard and Unobservable Behaviour: Part I
   Review of Economic Studies, 1999, 66, (1), 3-21 View citations

1997

3. Information and Incentives: The Economics of Carrots and Sticks
   Economic Journal, 1997, 107, (444), 1311-29 View citations
   See also Working Paper (1996)

1995

4. Private risk and public action: The economics of the welfare state
   European Economic Review, 1995, 39, (3-4), 383-397 View citations

1990

5. Taxing Uncertain Incomes
   Oxford Economic Papers, 1990, 42, (1), 34-45 View citations

1986

6. Payroll-Tax Financed Social Insurance with Variable Retirement
   Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1986, 88, (1), 25-50 View citations

1982

7. Migration and optimal income taxes
   Journal of Public Economics, 1982, 18, (3), 319-341 View citations

1980

8. Optimal taxation in a stochastic economy: A Cobb-Douglas example
   Journal of Public Economics, 1980, 14, (1), 1-29 View citations
   See also Working Paper (1978)

1978

9. A model of social insurance with variable retirement
   Journal of Public Economics, 1978, 10, (3), 295-336 View citations
   See also Working Paper (1977)
10. Social benefit-cost analysis and the distribution of income
    World Development, 1978, 6, (2), 131-138 View citations

1976

11. Optimal tax theory: A synthesis
    Journal of Public Economics, 1976, 6, (4), 327-358 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1976)
12. Private Constant Returns and Public Shadow Prices
    Review of Economic Studies, 1976, 43, (1), 41-47 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1975)
13. The Optimal Structure of Incentives and Authority Within an Organization
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1976, 7, (1), 105-131 View citations

1975

14. On the Assignment of Liability: The Uniform Case
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1975, 6, (2), 487-516 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1975)
15. Optimum Saving with Economies of Scale
    Review of Economic Studies, 1975, 42, (3), 303-25 View citations

1973

16. Aggregate Production with Consumption Externalities
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1973, 87, (1), 1-24 View citations

1972

17. A Reply to Some Criticisms of the OECD Manual
    Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1972, 34, (1), 153-68
18. Fairly good plans
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1972, 4, (2), 268-288 View citations
19. On Producer Taxation
    Review of Economic Studies, 1972, 39, (1), 105-11 View citations
20. Population policy and the taxation of family size
    Journal of Public Economics, 1972, 1, (2), 169-198 View citations

1971

21. An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation
    Review of Economic Studies, 1971, 38, (114), 175-208 View citations
22. Optimal Taxation and Public Production II: Tax Rules
    American Economic Review, 1971, 61, (3), 261-78 View citations
23. Optimal Taxation and Public Production: I--Production Efficiency
    American Economic Review, 1971, 61, (1), 8-27 View citations

1969

24. The Dynamic Nonsubstitution Theorem
    Review of Economic Studies, 1969, 36, (105), 67-76 View citations

Chapters

2005

1. The theory of optimal taxation
   Chapter 24 in Handbook of Mathematical Economics, 2005, vol. 3, pp 1197-1249

1985

2. Insurance Aspects of Pensions
   A chapter in Pensions, Labor, and Individual Choice, 1985, pp 317-356 View citations