V. Kerry Smith

V. Kerry Smith is an American environmental economist. As of 2024 he is an Emeritus Professor of economics in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and was previously University Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy at North Carolina State University. Smith is known for his foundational research in environmental economics, is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and was inducted in the National Academy of Sciences in 2004. Chicago Professor John A. List once described Smith as a "Renaissance Man of Economics" in praise of Smith's book The Economics of Environmental Risk. He has published more than 300 academic works that have been cited over 7,000 times, which includes 15 books and over 200 peer-reviewed articles.