1976 "Optimal Tax Theory: A Synthesis", Journal of Public Economics, December 1976 "Implications for Tax Rates", in Taxation and Incentives, 1976 "Arguments for Public Expenditure" in Contemporary Economic Analysis (eds. Artis and Nobay), 1979 "Social Benefit-Cost Analysis and the Distribution of Income", World Development, 1978 "A Model of Optimal Social Insurance with Variable Retirement" (with P.A. Diamond), Journal of Public Economics, 1978 "Optimal Taxation in a Stochastic Economy: A Cobb-Douglas Example" (with P.A. Diamond and J. Helms), Journal of Public Economics, 1980 "Optimal Foreign-income taxation", Journal of Public Economics, 1982 "The economic uses of utilitarianism", in "The Theory of Optimum Taxation", Handbook of Mathematical Economics (eds. Arrow and Intriligator), Vol.III, 1985 "Insurance Aspects of Pensions" (with P.A. Diamond), in Pensions, Labor and Individual Choice (ed. David A. Wise), 1985 "Payroll-tax financed social insurance with variable retirement" (with P. A. Diamond), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1986 "Taxing Uncertain Incomes", Oxford Economic Papers, 1990 "Project Appraisal and Planning Twenty Years On" (with I.M.D. Little), in Proceedings of the World Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics 1990 (eds. Stanley Fischer, Dennis de Tray and Shekhar Shah), 1991 "Optimal Taxation of Identical Consumers when markets are incomplete" (with P.A. Diamond), in Economic Analysis of Markets and Games (ed. Dasgupta, Gale, Hart and Maskin), 1992 "Optimal Taxation and Government Finance" in Modern Public Finance (eds. Quigley and Smolensky), 1994 "Welfare Economics and Economies of Scale", Japanese Economic Review, 1995 "Private Risk and Public Action: The Economies of the Welfare State", European Economic Review, 1995 "Tax by Design: the Mirrlees Review" , J. Mirrlees, S. Adam, T. Besley, R. Blundell, S. Bond, R. Chote, M. Gammie, P. Johnson, G. Myles and J. Poterba, , Oxford University Press: September 2011. Further reading Huw Dixon, James Mirrlees 1936-. The Palgrave Companion to Cambridge Economics, Editor Robert Cord. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, Pages 1079-1094. ISBN 978-1-137-41233-1 Richard Blundell, Ian Preston. 25 January 2019. Principles of tax design, public policy and beyond: The ideas of James Mirrlees, 1936-2018 References External links James Mirrlees website, Pete Tregear and Dan Atherton. Biographic speech from The Chinese University of Hong Kong James Mirrlees interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 21 July 2009 (video) including the Prize Lecture 9 December 1996 Information and Incentives: The Economics of Carrots and Sticks 1936 births 2018 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Chinese University of Hong Kong Edgeworth Professors of Economics Fellows of Nuffield