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,
natural resource economics[?] and
experimental economics[?].
Smith received the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2002.