Gary smith biography

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Gary Ernest Smith

Gary Ernest Smith was born in the rural farm community of Baker City, Oregon in 1942. He exhibited an interest in art at an early age. His parents recognized his talent and encouraged his ability through his youthful years. He was selling his landscapes and portraits while in junior high and high school. After graduating from high school and attending a workshop at his great aunt’s gallery in Lincoln Beach, Oregon, he determined to get a college degree and teach art. Gary met and married musician, Judy Asay in 1967. He completed a bachelor’s degree and was pursuing a master’s degree when he was drafted into the Vietnam War. Following basic training he was assigned to Ft. McLellan, Alabama teaching at an NCO Academy. After a year he was sent to Korea for six months and was released from active duty. Throughout his military service he kept sketch books and developed his art when possible. After military service he pursued his master’s degre

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Gary Smith (economist)

American economist

Gary Smith
Born	1945 (age 79–80)
Nationality	American
Field	Economics, Research in macroeconomics, financial inefficiencies, and torturing data
Institution	Pomona College
Alma mater	Harvey Mudd College, Yale University
Influences	James Tobin

Gary Nance Smith (born 1945) is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College. His research on financial markets statistical reasoning, and artificial intelligence, often involves stock marknad anomalies, statistical fallacies, and the misuse of information have been widely cited.

Early history and education

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Smith earned his B. S. in mathematics from Harvey Mudd College and enrolled in Yale University’s graduate economics schema. After taking classes from James Tobin and William Brainard, he decided to focus on macroeconomics. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Yale in 1971 and was hired as an assistant professor. In a demons

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Gary Smith

About

Gary Smith was born in Portsmouth on 5 December 1963 and is self-taught as a cartoonist. As he later recalled, “I liked to draw faces at school and was always getting into trouble because I’d drawn my teachers’ likeness in the margins of my exercise book”: “Even the art teacher…said I was wasting my time drawing faces, so I was amazed when at the age of eighteen the local Portsmouth paper started me off by not only publishing my work, but paying me money.”