The Social Epistemology of Experimental Economics

ISBN-13: 9781138805095 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 212 str.

Ana Cordeiro dos Santos;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

This text develops a framework for the analysis of scientific experimentation and applies it to the experimental field of economics looking at the epistemic role of the participation of human subjects in economics experiments.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Epistemology, Experiments and Economics Part I The Social Epistemology of Experiment 2. Creating Phenomena in the Lab 3. Creating Microeconomic Phenomena 4. Intervening in the ‘Material World’ 5. Intervening in the ‘Social World’ 6. The Social Epistemology of Experiment Part II The Social Epistemology of Experimental Economics 7. The Foundation of Experimental Economics 8. Early Methodological Debate in Experimental Economics 9. Economics Experiments and the Real World 10. Human Agency (or lack thereof) in Economics Experiments 11. Behavioural Experiments: How Economists Learn about Human Behaviour 12. Preference Reversals and Critical Practice in Economics 13. Conclusion: What about the Social Epistemology of Experiment?

O autorze

Ana Cordeiro dos Santos is Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal.