The Making of Experimental Economics - Witness Seminar on the Emergence of a Field

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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A Witness Seminar on the Emergence of Experimental Economics.- The Very Beginnings.- The Growth of a Community.- Funding.- Knowledge and Skills.- Laboratories.- History and Future.- Episodes from the Early History of Experimentation in Economics.- Biographies of Participants.

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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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• Assisted by: Maas (Editor), Maas (Editor), Harro Maas (Editor), Andrej Svoren¿ík (Editor), Andre Svorencík (Editor), Andrej Svorencík (Editor), Andrej Svorenčík (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783319209517
• ISBN: 978-3-31-920951-7
• No. of pages: 245
• Dimensions: 173 mm x 19 mm x 243 mm
• Weight: 546 g
• Illustrations: VII, 245 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; B, Behavioral Economics, biotechnology, Social Sciences, Economic history, Economic theory & philosophy, Economics and Finance, Economic Theory, Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences, Philosophy of Mathematics, Methodology of the Social Sciences, game theory, Social research & statistics, Management science, Quantitative Economics, History of Economic Thought and Methodology, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Behavioral/Experimental Economics