Happy birthday, Vernon L. Smith! Thank you for all that you've done to advance our understanding of the world, and developing techniques for figuring out the best ways for humans to live in it.
"The economist Vernon L. Smith was born 93 years ago today in Wichita, Kansas. After earning degrees at Caltech, the University of Kansas, and Harvard, he went on to a long, illustrious, and still-very-productive career at institutions like Purdue University, Brown University, the University of Massachusetts, Caltech, the University of Arizona, George Mason University, and now Chapman University in Orange, California, where he joined the faculty in 2008. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in economics with the psychologist Daniel Kahneman, “for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms.” "
"The economist Vernon L. Smith was born 93 years ago today in Wichita, Kansas. After earning degrees at Caltech, the University of Kansas, and Harvard, he went on to a long, illustrious, and still-very-productive career at institutions like Purdue University, Brown University, the University of Massachusetts, Caltech, the University of Arizona, George Mason University, and now Chapman University in Orange, California, where he joined the faculty in 2008. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in economics with the psychologist Daniel Kahneman, “for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms.” "