The Experiment in the History of Economics

ISBN-13: 9780415649230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 184 str.

Philippe Fontaine; Robert Leonard

Opis

The contributions in this book show that the concept of the 'experiment' has been persistently present, in various guises, throughout the history of the field. This has been most obviously shown by the post-war rise of behavioural economics.

Spis treści

List of Contributors  Acknowledgements  Introduction  1. Experimental Economic Games  2. The Allais Paradox and its Immediate Consequences For Expected Utility Theory  3. Experimentation, General Equilibrium and Games  4. Thought - and Performed Experiments in Hayek and Morgenstern  5. Social Comptabilism and Pure Credit Systems  6. The Vanity of Rigour in Economics

O autorze

Philippe Fontaine is co-editor with Albert Jolink of Historical Perspectives on Macroeconomics (Routledge, 1998)
Robert Leonard is an expert on the history of game theory and experimental economics. He is a Professor of Economics at the University of Quebec.