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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 Behavior
   Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley View citations (2)
   Also in Economics Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley (1987) View citations (6)

1982

5. Social Insurance with Variable Retirement and Private Saving
   Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations (11)

1978

6. Optimal Taxation in a Stochastic Economy: A Cobb-Douglas Example
   Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations (4)
   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 (13)
   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 (122)
   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 (3)
   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 (4)
    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 (149)

Journal Articles

2012

1. Évaluer les politiques de développement. Evaluating Development Policies
   Revue d’économie du développement, 2012, 26, (4), 11-25

2011

2. ADB Distinguished Speakers Program: Poverty and Redistribution in Emerging Economies
   Asian Development Review, 2011, 28, (2), 1-10
3. The Mirrlees Review: Conclusions and Recommendations for Reform
   Fiscal Studies, 2011, 32, (3), 331-359

2003

4. Evaluating Economics Research in Europe: An Introduction
   Journal of the European Economic Association, 2003, 1, (6), 1239-1249 View citations (37)

2001

5. Les impôts. Pourquoi ? Combien ?
   Revue Française d'Économie, 2001, 15, (4), 3-18

1999

6. The Theory of Moral Hazard and Unobservable Behaviour: Part I
   Review of Economic Studies, 1999, 66, (1), 3-21 View citations (46)

1997

7. Information and Incentives: The Economics of Carrots and Sticks
   Economic Journal, 1997, 107, (444), 1311-29 View citations (16)
   See also Working Paper (1996)

1995

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

1990

9. Taxing Uncertain Incomes
   Oxford Economic Papers, 1990, 42, (1), 34-45 View citations (7)

1986

10. Payroll-Tax Financed Social Insurance with Variable Retirement
    Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1986, 88, (1), 25-50 View citations (41)

1982

11. Migration and optimal income taxes
    Journal of Public Economics, 1982, 18, (3), 319-341 View citations (16)

1980

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

1978

13. A model of social insurance with variable retirement
    Journal of Public Economics, 1978, 10, (3), 295-336 View citations (125)
    See also Working Paper (1977)
14. Social benefit-cost analysis and the distribution of income
    World Development, 1978, 6, (2), 131-138 View citations (2)

1976

15. Optimal tax theory: A synthesis
    Journal of Public Economics, 1976, 6, (4), 327-358 View citations (127)
    See also Working Paper (1976)
16. Private Constant Returns and Public Shadow Prices
    Review of Economic Studies, 1976, 43, (1), 41-47 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper (1975)
17. The Optimal Structure of Incentives and Authority Within an Organization
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1976, 7, (1), 105-131 View citations (69)

1975

18. On the Assignment of Liability: The Uniform Case
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1975, 6, (2), 487-516 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper (1975)
19. Optimum Saving with Economies of Scale
    Review of Economic Studies, 1975, 42, (3), 303-25 View citations (5)

1973

20. Aggregate Production with Consumption Externalities
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1973, 87, (1), 1-24 View citations (7)

1972

21. A Reply to Some Criticisms of the OECD Manual
    Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1972, 34, (1), 153-68
22. Fairly good plans
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1972, 4, (2), 268-288 View citations (14)
23. On Producer Taxation
    Review of Economic Studies, 1972, 39, (1), 105-11 View citations (12)
24. Population policy and the taxation of family size
    Journal of Public Economics, 1972, 1, (2), 169-198 View citations (8)

1971

25. An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation
    Review of Economic Studies, 1971, 38, (114), 175-208 View citations (708)
26. Optimal Taxation and Public Production II: Tax Rules
    American Economic Review, 1971, 61, (3), 261-78 View citations (93)
27. Optimal Taxation and Public Production: I--Production Efficiency
    American Economic Review, 1971, 61, (1), 8-27 View citations (138)

1969

28. The Dynamic Nonsubstitution Theorem
    Review of Economic Studies, 1969, 36, (105), 67-76 View citations (6)
29. The Evaluation of National Income in an Imperfect Economy
    The Pakistan Development Review, 1969, 9, (1), 1-13

Books

2006

1. Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (1)

Edited books

2011

1. Tax By Design: The Mirrlees Review
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press

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 (3)