List of Illustrations .......................................... ix
Acknowledgments ................................................. x
1 Introduction: epistemology, experiments and economics ........ 1
PART 1
The social epistemology of experiment .......................... 11
2 Creating phenomena in the lab ............................... 13
3 Creating microeconomic phenomena ............................ 24
4 Intervening in the 'material world' ......................... 39
5 Intervening in the 'social world' ........................... 52
6 The social epistemology of experiment ....................... 65
PART 2
The social epistemology of experimental economics .............. 79
7 The foundation of experimental economics .................... 81
8 Early methodological debate in experimental economics ....... 93
9 Economics experiments and the real world ................... 110
10 Human agency (or lack thereof) in economics experiments .... 126
11 Behavioural experiments: how economists learn about human
behaviour .................................................. 143
12 Preference reversals and critical practice in economics .... 158
13 Conclusion: what about the social epistemology of
experiment? ................................................ 178
Notes ......................................................... 186
Bibliography .................................................. 192
Index ......................................................... 207
|