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

by 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319984039
• ISBN13: 9783319984032
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"