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  title info:
    title: Diversity of Experimental Methods in Economics
  name:
    name part: Kawagoe, Toshiji.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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  name:
    name part: Takizawa, Hirokazu.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VI, 203 p. 32 illus., 6 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This is the first book that examines the diverse range of experimental methods currently being used in the social sciences, gathering contributions by working economists engaged in experimentation, as well as by a political scientist, psychologists and philosophers of the social sciences. Until the mid-twentieth century, most economists believed that experiments in the economic sciences were impossible. But that's hardly the case today, as evinced by the fact that Vernon Smith, an experimental economist, and Daniel Kahneman, a behavioral economist, won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002. However, the current use of experimental methods in economics is more diverse than is usually assumed. As the concept of experimentation underwent considerable abstraction throughout the twentieth century, the areas of the social sciences in which experiments are applied are expanding, creating renewed interest in, and multifaceted debates on, the way experimental methods are used. This book sheds new light on the diversity of experimental methodologies used in the social sciences. The topics covered include historical insights into the evolution of experimental methods; the necessary "performativity" of experiments, i.e., the dynamic interaction with the social contexts in which they are embedded; the application of causal inferences in the social sciences; a comparison of laboratory, field, and natural experiments; and the recent use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in development economics. Several chapters also deal with the latest heated debates, such as those concerning the use of the random lottery method in laboratory experiments.
  table of contents: The performativity of economic experiments -- The use of experiments in economics and psychology: Historical perspective -- Controlled laboratory experiment in economics and induced value theory -- Experimental methods in behavioral game theory -- Statistical causal inference and the concept of causality -- RCT method in development economics -- Natural experiment and randomization in mechanism design -- The significance of simulation method in economics.
  note: edited by Toshiji Kawagoe, Hirokazu Takizawa.
  subject:
    topic: Behavioral economics
  subject:
    topic: Econometrics
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Behavioral/Experimental Economics
  subject:
    topic: Econometrics
  subject:
    topic: History of Economic Thought/Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance
  classification: HB71-74
  classification: 330.01
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