Vernon Smith
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Vernon Lomax Smith is regarded as one of the leading experimental economists in the world today. Smith was born in Wichita, Kansas, on January 1, 1927. Today, Smith is a professor of economics at George Mason University, a research scholar at George Mason's Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, and a Fellow of the Mercatus Center, all in Arlington, Virginia. One of Smith's finest accomplishments came in 2002, when he shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics when he was a research professor at the University of Arizona. However, Smith's interest in experimental economics began when he was starting out as a professor at Purdue University's Krannet School of Economics.
