PSA Certified 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics" Vernon L Smith Hand Signed personal business card

PSA Certified 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics" Vernon L Smith Hand Signed personal business card.

Vernon Lomax Smith (born January 1, 1927) is an American economist and professor of business economics and law at Chapman University. He was formerly a professor of economics at the University of Arizona, professor of economics and law at George Mason University, and a board member of the Mercatus Center. Along with Daniel Kahneman, Smith shared the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to behavioral economics and his work in the field of experimental economics. He worked to establish 'laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms'.

Smith is the founder and president of the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics, a Member of the Board of Advisors for The Independent Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington D.C. In 2004 Smith was honored with an honorary doctoral degree at Universidad Francisco Marroquín, the institution that named the Vernon Smith Center for Experimental Economics Research after him.  He was also a founding board member of the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University.   As of 2023, Smith also sits on the Advisory Board for Florida Atlantic University's Madden Center for Value Creation.