A Life of Experimental Economics, Volume I: Forty Years of Discovery Vernon 3319984047 9783319984049

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• ISBN 10: 3319984047
• ISBN 13: 9783319984049
• Author: Vernon L. Smith

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.

Table of contents:

1. Before “My”

Part I. Beginings 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

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