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Buch, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

Smith

A Life of Experimental Economics, Volume II

The Next Fifty Years
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-98424-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

The Next Fifty Years

Buch, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

ISBN: 978-3-319-98424-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing


This sequel to A Life of Experimental Economics, Volume I, continues the intimate history of Vernon Smith’s personal and professional maturation after a dozen years at Purdue. The scene now shifts to twenty-six transformative years at the University of Arizona, then to George Mason University, and his recognition by the Nobel Prize Committee in 2002.  The book ends with his most recent decade at Chapman University.

At Arizona Vernon and his students studied asset trading markets and learned how wrong it had been to suppose that price bubbles could not occur where markets were full-information transparent. Their work in computerization of the lab facilitated very complex supply and demand experiments in natural gas pipeline, communication and electricity markets that paved the way for implementing, through decentralized market processes, the liberalization of industries traditionally believed to be “natural” monopolies. The “Smart ComputerAssisted Market” was born. Smith’s move to George Mason University greatly facilitated government and industry work in tandem with various public and private entities, whereas his relocation to Chapman University coincided with the Great Recession, whose similarity with the Depression was evident in his research. There he integrated two fundamental kinds of markets with laboratory experiments: Consumer non-durables, the supply and demand for which was stable in the lab and in the economy, and durable assets whose bubble tendencies made them unstable in the lab as well as in the economy—witness the great housing-mortgage market bubble run-up of 1997-2007.

This book’s conversational style and emphasis on the backstory of published research accomplishments allows readers an exclusive peak into how and why economists pursue their work. It’s a must-read for those interested in experimental economics, the housing crisis, and economic history.

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1. Yankee Land.- 2. West with the Night.- 3. Arizona and E-Commerce in the Lab.- 4. My Friends Were Finally Right.- 5. Wives, Daughters, and Sons.- 6. Home Again: Chapman University.- 7. Economic Collapse, 2007-8: Would 1929 Be Reborn in Anemic Growth? 8.- Kinds of Markets: The Good, the Volatile and the Sometimes Ugly.- 9. Reconnecting Modern Economics with its Classical Origins: Discovering Adam Smith.- 10. Faith and the Compatibility of Science and Religion.


Vernon L. Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for his groundbreaking work in experimental economics. Dr. Smith has joint appointments with the Argyros School of Business & Economics and the Fowler School of Law at Chapman University, and he is part of a team that will create and run the new Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman. Dr. Smith has authored or co-authored more than 300 articles and books on capital theory, finance, natural resource economics and experimental economics. He serves or has served on the board of editors of the American Economic ReviewCato Journal, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Journal of Risk and UncertaintyScienceEconomic TheoryEconomic DesignGames and Economic Behavior, and the Journal of Economic Methodology. He is past president of the Public Choice Society, the Economic Science Association, the Western Economic Association and the Association for Private Enterprise Education.



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