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A life of experimental economics.. Volume I,. Forty years of discovery

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A life of experimental economics./ by Vernon L. Smith.
Author:	Smith, Vernon L.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2018.,
Description:	xxii, 270 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Smith, Vernon L. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98404-9
ISBN:	9783319984049

A life of experimental economics.. Volume I,. Forty years of discovery
Smith, Vernon L.

A life of experimental economics.Volume I,Forty years of discovery[electronic resource] /by Vernon L. Smith. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - xxii, 270 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1. Before "My" -- 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 -- 11. The Good Land -- 12. The People.

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.

ISBN: 9783319984049

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-98404-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1211157
Smith, Vernon L.

LC Class. No.: HB119.S56

Dewey Class. No.: 330.092

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