Vernon L. Smith is professor of
economics and
law at
George Mason University, a
research scholar in the
Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, and a Fellow of the
Mercatus Center all in
Arlington, Virginia. He received his bachelor's degree in
electrical engineering from
Cal Tech, and his Ph.D. in economics from
Harvard. He has authored or co-authored over 200 articles and books on
capital theory,
finance,
resource economics">natural
resource economics and
experimental economics.
Smith received the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2002.
