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James Mirrlees Quotes

1936–2018 Scotland

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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The income tax is a much less effective tool for reducing inequalities than has often been thought.

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.

I must confess that I had expected the rigorous analysis of income taxation in the utilitarian manner to provide arguments for high tax rates. It has not done so.

An approximately linear income tax schedule is desirable; and in particular negative income tax proposals are strongly supported

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