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In the News |
| Recap of the IFREE-sponsored Seventeenth Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics at ESI, January 8-12, 2012. |
| Overview of the Winter/Spring 2012 Speakers - IFREE-Sponsored Lecture Series at ESI |
| The IFREE Small Grants Proposal: Read about the research projects awarded funding in October 2011. |
| IFREE Sponsored UAA Incoming Student Experimental Economics Workshop, August 25-26 2011. |
| Peter DeScioli and Bart Wilson acknowledge IFREE funding for paper about property published in Evolution and Human Behavior. |
| Pictures of the IFREE-Sponsored Summer Scholars Program, June 27th to August 6th 2011. |
| Pictures of the Vernon L. Smith IFREE-sponsored High School Workshops in Experimental Economics, July 25-29 and August 1-5 2011. |
| Recap of IFREE Sponsored "Economics in the Metaverse" High School Workshop at GMU, July 25th-29th 2011. |
| Breakthrough in the Second Phase of IFREE Supported Research on Combinatorial Auction. |
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In 2002, IFREE-founder Dr. Vernon Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for "having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms."
Navigating IFREE
Many contributors who donate to IFREE do so because they know the people who volunteer to make IFREE a smooth-running, efficiently targeted, and mission driven grant-making organization that does not pay IFREE administrative salaries, nor individual researchers for project work.
IFREE's impact is out of proportion to its administrative size, which means that IFREE contributors can count on their dollars going directly towards research grants, high school and graduate student workshops, intern program, speaker series, and pre and post doc support.
You, too, can be an IFREE volunteer by sharing your interest and support via word-of-mouth!
IFREE Board of Directors Talk About Service
What is it about IFREE that makes service compelling? Why do you volunteer?
"…IFREE promotes a methodology which helps determine the validity of economic theories… I serve almost entirely out of regard for people involved, especially Vernon… appreciate the people I’ve come to know through IFREE-sponsored activities… appreciate the encouragement of research interests out of the main-stream… it’s about reciprocity, as IFREE made it possible to continue my advanced education, and thus career… the scientific importance of the IFREE Mission… gratitude for the opportunity to give back to this organization… a chance to acknowledge and encourage others' work outside of mainstream economics… intrigued, charmed by being associated with Vernon and colleagues… scope and implications of experimental economics… seeing evidence that ideas have consequences… understanding the value of the experimental economics and being a part of its promotion in academia… the analytical rigor, philosophical foundations and inter-disciplinary applications… 95% of donor dollars go for projects… seeing changes in teaching at ALL levels… collaboration and fun!"
Thank you Tucker Andersen, David Dreman, Rob Gasaway, Rob Kurzban, Jim Murphy, Vernon Smith, for all that you do in volunteering and contributing to IFREE’s success as an organization dedicated to changing the way we think about economics. - Candace Smith, volunteer, Vice President
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