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EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS [PDF]

open access: yesEconomics and Philosophy, 2013
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]

open access: yes, 2008
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]

open access: yesفصلنامه پژوهش‌های اقتصادی ایران, 2018
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

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2015
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 Role of Computers in the Emergence of Experimental Economics Laboratories: Material Culture and Moral Economy

open access: yesŒconomia, 2023
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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Ethics in economics

open access: yesErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2012
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

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2010
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

open access: yesEconomía, 2016
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?

open access: yesEconomics: Journal Articles, 2020
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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Experimental Simulation of Public Information Impacts on Price Discovery and Marketing Efficiency in the Fed Cattle Market

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1998
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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