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A Life of Experimental Economics, Volume I, 1st ed. 2018 Forty Years of Discovery

Langue : Anglais

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Couverture de l’ouvrage A Life of Experimental Economics, Volume I

This book provides an intimate history of Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith?s early life, combining elements of biography, history, economics and philosophy to show how crucial incidents early in his life provided the necessary framework for his research into experimental economics. Smith takes the reader from his family roots on the railroads and oil fields of Middle America to his early life on a farm in Depression-wracked Kansas. A mediocre student in high school, Smith attended Friends University, on Wichita?s west side, where an intense study of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and astronomy enabled him to pass the examinations to enter Caltech and study under luminary scientists like Linus Pauling. Eventually Smith discovered economics and pursued graduate study in the field at University of Kansas and Harvard. This volume ends with his Camelot years at Purdue, where he began his famous work in experimental economics, nurturing his research into an unlikely new field of economics.

1. Before “My”
Part I Beginnings and Launching
2. You Can Go Home Again
3. Enter My Father
4. From City Lights to Starlight
5. City Lights Again
6. High School, Boeing, and the War Years
7. Friends University, Caltech and University of Kansas
8. Harvard, 1952-1955
9. Thou Shalt Honor Thy Father and Mother
10. Above All to Thine Own Self Be True
Part II The Purdue Years
11. The Good Land
12. The People

Vernon L. Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for his groundbreaking work in experimental economics. Dr. Smith has joint appointments with the Argyros School of Business & Economics and the Fowler School of Law at Chapman University, and he is part of a team that will create and run the new Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman. Dr. Smith has authored or co-authored more than 300 articles and books on capital theory, finance, natural resource economics and experimental economics. He serves or has served on the board of editors of the American Economic ReviewCato Journal, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Journal of Risk and UncertaintyScienceEconomic TheoryEconomic DesignGames and Economic Behavior, and the Journal of Economic Methodology. He is past president of the Public Choice Society, the Economic Science Association, the Western Economic Association and the Association for Private Enterprise Education.


Illuminates the first forty years of Nobel Prize Laureate Vernon Smith's life

Shows how Vernon L. Smith's work in experimental economics was rooted in his childhood experiences in Depression-era Wichita and his scientific training at Caltech

Functions as the first of two volumes chronicling the memoirs of a groundbreaking economist

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15.5x23.5 cm

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29,53 €

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