1996年诺贝尔经济学奖授予英国剑桥大学教授詹姆士·莫里斯(James Mirrlees)和美国哥伦比亚大学退休教授威廉·维克瑞(William Vickery),表彰他们对信息经济学的开创性贡献——具体而言,就是在非对称信息情况下如何让人说实话和如何激励人努力工作的理论。应该说明的是,此前数届诺贝尔经济学奖得主其理论贡献都无不与信息经济学相关联。我国有学者指出,本届诺贝尔经济学奖的 The Nobel Prize in economics in 1996 awarded James Mirrlees, a professor at Cambridge University, and William Vickery, a retired professor at Columbia University, in recognition of their pioneering contributions to information economics - Specifically, it is the theory of how to tell the truth and how to motivate people to work hard in the case of asymmetric information. It should be noted that none of the theoretical contributions made by previous Nobel Prize winners in economics have been related to information economics. Some scholars in our country point out that this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics