2 Americans To Share Nobel Prize In Economics; George Mason's Smith, Princeton Professor Win

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 10, 2002| Author: Steven Pearlstein | Copyright information

The Nobel prize for economics yesterday went to two Americans, including a recently recruited professor at George Mason University, for work that has brought psychology and laboratory experimentation to the forefront of economics.

Vernon L. Smith, 75, a professor of economics and law at George Mason, will share this year's $1 million prize with Daniel Kahneman, 68, a psychologist at Princeton University who is the second non- economist to win the award.

Smith was cited for pione...

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