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Also known as Vernon Lomax Smith

American economist

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Vernon Lomax Smith is an American economist and university teacher born in Wichita in 1927. He holds a doctorate and has been employed by Brown University, Purdue University, Stanford University, and George Mason University. Smith is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Econometric Society.

He received the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. His academic work includes titles such as *A theoretical and empirical inquiry into the economic replacement of capital equipment*, *Effect of market organization on competitive equilibrium*, *Adam Smith's Theory of Society*, *The Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior*, and *Economics of Natural Resources and Environmental Resources*.

Smith was educated at the University of Kansas, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the California Institute of Technology, and Harvard University. His doctoral advisor was Wassily Leontief.

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Works
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Top works

  • A theoretical and empirical inquiry into the economic replacement of capital equipment
  • Effect of market organization on competitive equilibrium
  • Adam Smith's Theory of Society
  • The Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior
  • Economics of Natural Resources and Environmental Resources

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Quotes

  • Even though Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century who saw what must be the mainsprings of the extended order, Mises was the choice technician, and no one was better at articulating the primacy of the individual and the need to define and nurture individual rights.
  • It is important to remove artificial barriers–stumbling stones, often local in origin and coming from incumbent opposition to entry–and to not burden businesses with taxes that reduce their internally generated funds for reinvestment, growth and striving to overcome market challenges.
  • Three precepts are offered to constitute a foundation for the use of laboratory experimental methods in testing hypotheses about the behavior of allocation mechanisms.
  • Nonsatiation (Smith, 1976a). Given a costless choice be ween two alternatives which differ only in that the first yields more of the reward medium (e.g., currency) than the second, the first will always be chosen (preferred) over the second by an autonomous individual, i.e., utility U(M) is a monotone increasing function of the reward medium.
  • Complexity. In general individual decision makers must be assumed to have multidimensional values which attach nonmonetary subjective cost or value to (1) the process of making and executing individual or group decisions, (2) the end result of such decisions, and (3) the rewards (and perhaps behavior) of other individuals involved in the decision process.
  • Parallelism: Propositions about the behavior of individuals and the performance of institutions that have been tested in laboratory microeconomies apply also to nonlaboratory environments where similar ceteris paribus conditions prevail.

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Key facts

Born
Vernon Lomax Smith , ( 1927-01-01 ) January 1, 1927 (age 99) , Wichita, Kansas , U.S.
Education
California Institute of Technology ( BS ), University of Kansas ( MA ), Harvard University ( PhD )
Thesis
A theoretical and empirical inquiry into the economic replacement of capital equipment (1955)
Doctoral advisor
Wassily Leontief
Influences
Friedrich Hayek , Richard S. Howey
Discipline
Experimental economics
School or tradition
New classical economics
Notable ideas
Combinatorial auction , Experimental economics
Awards
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2002)
Website
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

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Nobel Prize

  • The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2002

    for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms

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Encyclopedic overview

Vernon Lomax Smith (born January 1, 1927) is an American economist who is currently a professor of economics and law at Chapman University. He was formerly the McLellan/Regent's Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona, a professor of economics and law at George Mason University, and a board member of the Mercatus Center. Along with Daniel Kahneman, Smith won the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to behavioral economics and his work in the field of experimental economics, which helped establish "laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms."

Smith is the founder and president of the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREEE), a member of the Independent Institute’s board of advisors, and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington D.C. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1987, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995. In 2004, Smith was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Universidad Francisco Marroquín, where the Vernon Smith Center for Experimental Economics Research is named for him. He was also a founding board member of the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University. As of 2023, Smith also sits on the advisory board of the Madden Center for Value Creation at Florida Atlantic University.

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