Experiments in Economics...(Should We Trust the Dismal Scientists In White Coats?)

Chris Starmer

University of East Anglia Discussion Papers in Economics from School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

Abstract: Is the rapid growth of experimental research in economics evidence of a new scientific spirit at work or merely fresh evidence of a misplaced desire to ape the methods of natural sciences? It is often argued that economic experiments are artificial in some sense which tends to render the results problematic or uninteresting. In the early part of this paper I argue that this artificiality critique does not provide a convincing philosophical objection to experimentation in economics.

Keywords: EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORIES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 C99 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 1998
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