The science of experimental economics

Experimental Economics: Science or What?

Do we want experimental economics to evolve into a genuine science? This paper uses the literature on inequity aversion as a case study in warning that we are at risk of losing the respect of other scientific disciplines if we continue to accept the wide claims about human behavior that are currently being advanced without examining either the data from which the claims are supposedly derived o...

ترجمه و نقد کتاب the justification of science and the rationality of religious belife

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Will Economics Become an Experimental Science?

Economics : the next Physical Science ?

We review an emerging body of work by physicists addressing questions of economic organization and function. We suggest that, beyond simply employing models familiar from physics to economic observables, remarkable regularities in economic data may suggest parts of social order that can usefully be incorporated into, and in turn can broaden, the conceptual structure of physics.

The Method of Experimental Economics

There are many similarities between experimental economics and psychological research, both substantive and methodological. However, there are important differences as well. This article discusses five methodological areas where experimental economists and experimental psychologists differ: incentives, context, subject pools, deception, experimental details and data analysis. Within each topic ...