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James Mirrlees [1936-0] Scottish

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Economist

Sir James Alexander Mirrlees FRSE FBA is a Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in 1998.
Born in Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Mirrlees was educated at the University of Edinburgh and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a very active student debater.

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It's not going to be true that every country has the same technological possibilities, but there is no reason why it might not be more or less true. Broadly, that the idea that the same technologies should be available everywhere seems to me very plausible.		101
It became clear I wanted to be a development economist. I mean, I said I wanted to work on the economics of poor countries. And I'd actually say that I don't think that was so much about narrowing the gap as about increasing their incomes, which means economic growth, which is really my prime interest.		102
I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percent; that's to say, add on other taxes like VAT to the income tax.		103
The world's been pretty good at coming up with new ways of doing things.		104
Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that. Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.		105
You know there's problems - you can see all the poverty and so on - but it's quite another matter to know what you can do about it.		106
Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that.		107
Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.		108
When things begin to go bad, the perception of people makes it worse.		109

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