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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 View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Information and Incentives: The Economics of Carrots and Sticks, Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (1997) View citations (37) (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 (6)
   Also in Economics Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley (1987) View citations (9)

1982

5. Social Insurance with Variable Retirement and Private Saving
   Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations (17)

1978

6. Optimal Taxation in a Stochastic Economy: A Cobb-Douglas Example
   Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Optimal taxation in a stochastic economy: A Cobb-Douglas example, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (1980) View citations (22) (1980)

1977

7. A Model of Social Insurance With Variable Retirement
   Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations (18)
   See also Journal Article A model of social insurance with variable retirement, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (1978) View citations (264) (1978)

1976

8. Optimal Tax Theory: A Synthesis
   Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations (288)
   See also Journal Article Optimal tax theory: A synthesis, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (1976) View citations (294) (1976)

1975

9. On the Assignment of Liability: The Uniform Case
   Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations (6)
   See also Journal Article On the Assignment of Liability: The Uniform Case, Bell Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation (1975) View citations (5) (1975)
10. Private Constant Returns and Public Shadow Prices
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article Private Constant Returns and Public Shadow Prices, The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd (1976) View citations (5) (1976)

1968

11. Optimal Taxation and Public Production
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations (139)

Journal Articles

2019

1. Choice of techniques
   Indian Economic Review, 2019, 54, (1), 207-214

2016

2. CAPITAL AND INEQUALITY
   Contemporary Economic Policy, 2016, 34, (3), 399-402 View citations (2)
3. INEQUALITY: COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, AND ANSWERS
   Contemporary Economic Policy, 2016, 34, (3), 412-414 View citations (1)

2013

4. Strategies in the principal-agent model
   Economic Theory, 2013, 53, (3), 605-656 View citations (6)

2012

5. The Mirrlees Review: A Proposal for Systematic Tax Reform
   National Tax Journal, 2012, 65, (3), 655-83 View citations (9)
6. Évaluer les politiques de développement. Evaluating Development Policies
   Revue d’économie du développement, 2012, 20, (4), 11-25

2011

7. ADB Distinguished Speakers Program: Poverty and Redistribution in Emerging Economies
   Asian Development Review, 2011, 28, (2), 1-10
8. Poverty and Redistribution in Emerging Economies
   Asian Development Review (ADR), 2011, 28, (02), 1-10
9. The Mirrlees Review: Conclusions and Recommendations for Reform
   Fiscal Studies, 2011, 32, (3), 331-359 View citations (9)

2010

10. Are recessions inevitable?
    Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2010, 15, (4), 341-348 View citations (1)

2003

11. Evaluating Economics Research in Europe: An Introduction
    Journal of the European Economic Association, 2003, 1, (6), 1239-1249 View citations (77)

2001

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

1999

13. The Theory of Moral Hazard and Unobservable Behaviour: Part I
    The Review of Economic Studies, 1999, 66, (1), 3-21 View citations (178)

1997

14. Information and Incentives: The Economics of Carrots and Sticks
    Economic Journal, 1997, 107, (444), 1311-29 View citations (37)
    See also Working Paper Information and Incentives: The Economics of Carrots and Sticks, Nobel Prize in Economics documents (1996) View citations (1) (1996)

1995

15. Private risk and public action: The economics of the welfare state
    European Economic Review, 1995, 39, (3-4), 383-397 View citations (6)
16. WELFARE ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIES OF SCALE
    The Japanese Economic Review, 1995, 46, (1), 38-62 View citations (1)

1990

17. Taxing Uncertain Incomes
    Oxford Economic Papers, 1990, 42, (1), 34-45 View citations (19)

1982

18. Migration and optimal income taxes
    Journal of Public Economics, 1982, 18, (3), 319-341 View citations (61)

1980

19. Optimal taxation in a stochastic economy: A Cobb-Douglas example
    Journal of Public Economics, 1980, 14, (1), 1-29 View citations (22)
    See also Working Paper Optimal Taxation in a Stochastic Economy: A Cobb-Douglas Example, Working papers (1978) View citations (2) (1978)

1978

20. A model of social insurance with variable retirement
    Journal of Public Economics, 1978, 10, (3), 295-336 View citations (264)
    See also Working Paper A Model of Social Insurance With Variable Retirement, Working papers (1977) View citations (18) (1977)
21. Social benefit-cost analysis and the distribution of income
    World Development, 1978, 6, (2), 131-138 View citations (16)

1976

22. Optimal tax theory: A synthesis
    Journal of Public Economics, 1976, 6, (4), 327-358 View citations (294)
    See also Working Paper Optimal Tax Theory: A Synthesis, Working papers (1976) View citations (288) (1976)
23. Private Constant Returns and Public Shadow Prices
    The Review of Economic Studies, 1976, 43, (1), 41-47 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Private Constant Returns and Public Shadow Prices, Working papers (1975) View citations (7) (1975)
24. The Optimal Structure of Incentives and Authority Within an Organization
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1976, 7, (1), 105-131 View citations (226)

1975

25. On the Assignment of Liability: The Uniform Case
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1975, 6, (2), 487-516 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper On the Assignment of Liability: The Uniform Case, Working papers (1975) View citations (6) (1975)
26. Optimum Saving with Economies of Scale
    The Review of Economic Studies, 1975, 42, (3), 303-325 View citations (7)

1973

27. Aggregate Production with Consumption Externalities
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1973, 87, (1), 1-24 View citations (19)

1972

28. A Reply to Some Criticisms of the OECD Manual
    Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1972, 34, (1), 153-68
29. Fairly good plans
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1972, 4, (2), 268-288 View citations (39)
30. On Producer Taxation
    The Review of Economic Studies, 1972, 39, (1), 105-111 View citations (34)
31. Population policy and the taxation of family size
    Journal of Public Economics, 1972, 1, (2), 169-198 View citations (15)

1971

32. An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation
    The Review of Economic Studies, 1971, 38, (2), 175-208 View citations (2278)
33. Optimal Taxation and Public Production II: Tax Rules
    American Economic Review, 1971, 61, (3), 261-78 View citations (935)
34. Optimal Taxation and Public Production: I--Production Efficiency
    American Economic Review, 1971, 61, (1), 8-27 View citations (911)

1969

35. The Dynamic Nonsubstitution Theorem
    The Review of Economic Studies, 1969, 36, (1), 67-76 View citations (14)
36. The Evaluation of National Income in an Imperfect Economy
    The Pakistan Development Review, 1969, 9, (1), 1-13 View citations (5)

1967

37. Optimum Growth when Technology is Changing
    The Review of Economic Studies, 1967, 34, (1), 95-124 View citations (31)

1962

38. A New Model of Economic Growth
    The Review of Economic Studies, 1962, 29, (3), 174-192 View citations (92)
    See also Chapter A New Model of Economic Growth, Palgrave Macmillan Books, 1971, 165-183 (1971) (1971)

Books

2006

1. Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (8)

Edited books

2011

1. Tax By Design: The Mirrlees Review
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (272)

Chapters

2005

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

1985

2. Insurance Aspects of Pensions
   A chapter in Pensions, Labor, and Individual Choice, 1985, pp 317-356 View citations (7)

1974

3. Optimum Accumulation Under Uncertainty: the Case of Stationary Returns to Investment
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (5)

1971

4. A New Model of Economic Growth
   Palgrave Macmillan
   See also Journal Article A New Model of Economic Growth, Review of Economic Studies Ltd (1962) View citations (92) (1962)