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EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS [PDF]
This article is a prelude to an experimental study of the preference concept in economics. I argue that a new empirical approach calledexperimental philosophy of scienceis a promising approach to advance the philosophy of economics. In particular, I discuss two debates in the field, the neuroeconomics controversy and the commonsensible realism debate ...
Nagatsu, Michiru
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Experimental Labour Economics [PDF]
Scientific progress relies on testing theories. In labour economics different data sources are available for performing such tests. An important distinction is between circumstantial data and experimental or questionnaire data. Circumstantial data is the by-product of uncontrolled, naturally occurring economic activity.
Armin Falk, Simon Gächter
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A Critique of Rational Choice from the Viewpoint of Competing Approaches: Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Brain Sciences [PDF]
The starting point of economic analyses undoubtedly is homo economicus, whose fundamental characteristic is rationality. In recent decades, the notion of rationality has been the subject of debates in social sciences, particularly economics. Conventional
Ebad Teimouri +2 more
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Experimental Evolution and Economics
This is a theory paper that advocates experimental evolution as a novel approach to study economic preferences. Economics could benefit because preferences are exogenous, axiomatic, and contentious.
Terence C. Burnham +2 more
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The emergence of experimental economics laboratories is tied to adopting computers as key instruments for conducting experimental research in economics. Various ways in which computer technology as a new form of material culture in experimental economics
Andrej Svorenčík
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Many economists, it is said, "are inclined to deny that moral philosophy has anything to do with economics" (Hausman and McPherson 2006, 291). In this paper I challenge such inclinations by drawing an analogy between economic interventions and human ...
Megan Blomfield
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A teoria da perspectiva e as mudanças de preferência no mainstream: um prospecto Lakatoseano
The theory of the perspective and the changes of preference in the mainstream: a Lakatosean prospect. For many decades over the 20th Century, the mainstream of economics adopted a normative and axiomatic theory of individual behavior in which maximizing ...
Bruno Berger, Huáscar Fialho Pessali
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Why do entrepreneurs leave the market? An explanation from experimental economics in Peru
Understanding the behavior of those who start--or intend to start--a business is vital for a country of entrepreneurs such as Peru, which registered the third highest rate of active entrepreneurship worldwide in 2011, according to the Global ...
José Carlos Raunelli +2 more
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Bounded rationality in Keynesian beauty contests: a lesson for central bankers?
The great recession (2008) triggered an apparent discrepancy between empirical findings and macroeconomic models based on rational expectations alone.
Mauersberger Felix +2 more
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Federal budgetary pressures raise questions regarding the importance of public market information. This study assesses the impact of price discovery and production efficiency of reducing public price and quantity information.
John D. Anderson +4 more
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