Recommended readings (Machine generated): J.A. Mirrlees (1971), 'An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation', Review of Economic Studies, 38 (2), April, 175-208 -- Peter A. Diamond and James A. Mirrlees (1971a), 'Optimal Taxation and Public Production I: Production Efficiency', American Economic Review, 61 (1), March, 8-27 -- Peter A. Diamond and James A. Mirrlees (1971b), 'Optimal Taxation and Public Production II: Tax Rules', American Economic Review, 61 (3, part 1), June, 261-78 -- J.A. Mirrlees (1974), 'Notes on Welfare Economics, Information and Uncertainty', in M. Balch (ed), D. McFadden (ed) and S. Wu (ed) (eds), Essays on Economic Behaviour Under Uncertainty, Chapter 9, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 243-58 -- James A. Mirrlees (1976), 'The Optimal Structure of Incentives and Authority within an Organization', Bell Journal of Economics, 7 (1), Spring, 105-31 -- James A. Mirrlees (1997), 'Information and Incentives: The Economics of Carrots and Sticks', Economic Journal, 107 (444), September, 1311-29 -- William Vickrey (1939), 'Averaging of Income for Income-Tax Purposes', Journal of Political Economy, 47 (3), June, 379-97 -- William Vickrey (1945), 'Measuring Marginal Utility by Reactions to Risk', Econometrica, 13 (4), October, 319-33 -- William S. Vickrey (1955), 'A Proposal for Revising New York's Subway Fare Structure', Journal of the Operations Research Society of America, 3 (1), February, 38-68 -- William Vickrey (1961), 'Counterspeculation, Auctions, and Competitive Sealed Tenders', Journal of Finance, 16 (1), March, 8-37 -- William Vickrey (1962), 'Auction and Bidding Games', in Recent Advances in Game Theory (Papers delivered at a meeting of the Princeton University Conference, October 4-6 1961), Philadelphia, PA: Ivy Curtis Press, 15-27 -- William Vickrey (1992), 'Federal Tax Policy for the 1990's: An Updated Agenda for Progressive Taxation', American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 82 (2), May, 257-62 -- George A. Akerlof (1970), 'The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism', Quarterly Journal of Economics, LXXXIV (3), August, 488-500 -- George Akerlof (1976), 'The Economics of Caste and of the Rat Race and Other Woeful Tales', Quarterly Journal of Economics, XC (4), November, 599-617 -- George A. Akerlof (1980), 'A Theory of Social Custom, of Which Unemployment May Be One Consequence', Quarterly Journal of Economics, XCIV (4), June, 749-7 -- George A. Akerlof (1982), 'Labor Contracts as Partial Gift Exchange', Quarterly Journal of Economics, XCVII (4), November, 543-69 -- George A. Akerlof and Janet L. Yellen (1985), 'A Near-Rational Model of the Business Cycle, with Wage and Price Inertia', Quarterly Journal of Economics, C, Supplement, 823-38 -- George A. Akerlof and Janet L. Yellen (1990), 'The Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis and Unemployment', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CV (2), May, 255-83 -- Michael Spence (1973), 'Job Market Signaling', Quarterly Journal of Economics, LXXXVII (3), August, 355-74