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The Making of Experimental Economics

Witness Seminar on the Emergence of a Field

  • Transcribes a witness seminar with 11 famous economists, including three Nobel Laureates
  • Provides an exciting view on the history of experimental economics
  • Presents the story in the own words of early protagonists in the field
  • Showcases striking examples from the practice of conducting economic experiments
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. A Witness Seminar on the Emergency of Experimental Economics

    • Harro Maas, Andrej Svorenčík
    Pages 1-18
  3. The Very Beginnings

    • Andrej Svorenčík, Harro Maas
    Pages 19-46
  4. The Growth of a Community

    • Andrej Svorenčík, Harro Maas
    Pages 47-85
  5. Funding

    • Andrej Svorenčík, Harro Maas
    Pages 87-111
  6. Knowledge and Skills

    • Andrej Svorenčík, Harro Maas
    Pages 113-156
  7. Laboratories

    • Andrej Svorenčík, Harro Maas
    Pages 157-176
  8. History and Future

    • Andrej Svorenčík, Harro Maas
    Pages 177-184
  9. Biographies of Participants

    • Andrej Svorenčík, Harro Maas
    Pages 185-194
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 219-245

About this book

This book is the transcript of a witness seminar on the history of experimental economics, in which eleven high-profile experimental economists participated, including Nobel Laureates Vernon Smith, Reinhard Selten and Alvin Roth. The witness seminar was constructed along four different topics: skills, community, laboratory, and funding. The transcript is preceded by an introduction explaining the method of the witness seminar and its specific set-up and resuming its results. The participants' contribution and their lively discussion provide a wealth of insights into the emergence of experimental economics as a field of research. 
This book was awarded with best book prize of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) in 2018.



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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

    Andrej Svorenčík

  • Centre Walras-Pareto d'études interdisciplinaires de la pensée économique et politique - IEPI, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Harro Maas

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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