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

• Main Author: Smith, Vernon L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Economics.; Behavioral economics.; Economic history.; Popular Science in Economics.; Behavioral/Experimental Economics.; Economic History.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.

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 r...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Before "My"
• 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
• 11. The Good Land
• 12. The People.