The Experiment in the History of Economics

Philippe Fontaine, Robert Leonard - Collection Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

192 pages, parution le 25/07/2005

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Until recently, there was long resistance to the idea that economics can lend itself to experimentation. Going back at least as far as John Stuart Mill and continuing until very recently, it was widely held that economics was not an experimental discipline.

The contributions in this book show, however, that the concept of the "experiment" has been persistently present, in various guises, throughout the history of the field. This has been most obviously shown by the post-war rise of behavioral economics, to which experimentation is central - but the tradition can actually be shown to have started much earlier with some of Wicksell's work on monetary reform foreshadowing the operations of the pioneers.

L'auteur - Philippe Fontaine

Le Dr Philippe Fontaine est psychiatre à l'hôpital Vincent Van Gogh (CHU de Charleroi, Belgique) et président de l'association belge francophone des TCC.

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Introduction
Experimental Economic Games
The Allais Paradox and its Immediate Consequences For Expected Utility Theory
Experimentation, General Equilibrium and Games
Thought - and Performed Experiments in Hayek and Morgenstern
Social Comptabilism and Pure Credit Systems
The Vanity of Rigour in Economics

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Routledge
Auteur(s)	Philippe Fontaine, Robert Leonard
Collection	Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
Parution	25/07/2005
Nb. de pages	192
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Broché
Poids	400g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780415344296
ISBN13	978-0-415-34429-6