Experimental Economics: Rethinking the Rules
Experimental Economics: Rethinking the Rules
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2009-11
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5.4
通讯作者：
N. Bardsley;Robin P. Cubitt;G. Loomes;P. Moffatt;Chris Starmer;R. Sugden
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作者：
N. Bardsley;Robin P. Cubitt;G. Loomes;P. Moffatt;Chris Starmer;R. Sugden
自20世纪80年代以来，实验方法在经济学中的使用出现了爆炸性增长，导致了经济理论和政策的令人兴奋的发展。尽管如此，实验经济学的地位仍然存在争议。在实验经济学中，作者利用他们在实验经济学，经济理论，经济学方法论，科学哲学和实验数据的计量经济学方面的经验和专业知识，以平衡和综合的方式看待基于实验研究的索赔的性质和可靠性。作者探讨了经济学实验的历史，提供了不同类型实验的例子，并表明实验方法的日益使用正在将经济学转变为一门真正的实证科学。他们解释说，不加批判地接受关于如何进行实验的民间智慧，未能承认不同的目标需要不同的实验设计方法，以及错误地假设理论建模中的良好实践原则可以直接转移到实验设计中，这些都阻碍了进展。实验经济学讨论了如何克服这些局限性，并将感兴趣的实践实验经济学家，非实验经济学家希望解释实验研究，和科学哲学家关心的地位，经济学中的知识主张。
Since the 1980s, there has been explosive growth in the use of experimental methods in economics, leading to exciting developments in economic theory and policy. Despite this, the status of experimental economics remains controversial. In Experimental Economics, the authors draw on their experience and expertise in experimental economics, economic theory, the methodology of economics, philosophy of science, and the econometrics of experimental data to offer a balanced and integrated look at the nature and reliability of claims based on experimental research. The authors explore the history of experiments in economics, provide examples of different types of experiments, and show that the growing use of experimental methods is transforming economics into a genuinely empirical science. They explain that progress is being held back by an uncritical acceptance of folk wisdom regarding how experiments should be conducted, a failure to acknowledge that different objectives call for different approaches to experimental design, and a misplaced assumption that principles of good practice in theoretical modeling can be transferred directly to experimental design. Experimental Economics debates how such limitations might be overcome, and will interest practicing experimental economists, nonexperimental economists wanting to interpret experimental research, and philosophers of science concerned with the status of knowledge claims in economics.