"Economics takes a while to learn, even if much of it is in a way quite simple. It is simple to be wrong as well as to be right, and it is none too easy to distinguish between them."
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University of Cambridge alumniNobel laureates in EconomicsEconomists from ScotlandFellows of the British AcademyNobel laureates from Scotland
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James Mirrlees in: Anders Barany, ‎Nobelstiftelsen (1996). Les Prix Nobel. p. 353
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James Mirrlees
Sir James Mirrlees FRSE, FBA (5 July 1936 - 29 August 2018) was a Scottish economist and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was knighted in 1998.
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