Experimental Economics: Hard Science or Wasteful Tinkering

Chris Starmer

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

Abstract: I take it that in raising the question "What have we learned from experimental economics" under the broader umbrella of "controversy" the point is not to solicit a catalogue of experimental findings, but rather to signal the more pointed question: are we learning anything at all, or at least much that is very useful form experimentation in economics. As a practising experimentalist, I am convinced that experiments do have the potential to make a significant contribution to knowledge in economics.

Keywords: EXPERIMENTS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 C99 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 1998
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