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In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men
Vernon L. Smith

Born: January 1, 1927 (age 98)
Bio: Vernon Lomax Smith is an American professor of economics. Smith shared the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Daniel Kahneman.
Known for:
- Papers in Experimental Economics (1991)
- Discovery - A Memoir (2008)
- Bargaining and Market Behavior (2000)
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