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Subject(s)

• Economics—History—Congresses [Browse]
• Economics—Congresses [Browse]

Related name

• Fontaine, Philippe, 1960- [Browse]
• Leonard, Robert, 1962- [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in the history of economics. [More in this series]

Summary note

Throughout the history of economic ideas, it has often been asserted that experimentation is impossible, yet, in fact, history shows that the idea of 'experimentation' has always been important, and as such has been interpreted and put to use in many ways. Rich in historical detail, the essays in this topical volume deal with such issues as laboratory experimentation, the observed transition from a post-war economics to a contemporary discipline, the contrasting positions of Friedrich Hayek and Oskar Morgenstern, the socio-economic experiments proposed by Ernest Solvay and Knut Wicksell, an

Notes

Conference proceedings.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

BookCover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Experimental economic games; 2 The Allais Paradox and its immediate consequences for expected utility theory; 3 Experimentation, general equilibrium and games; 4 Thought- and performed experiments in Hayek and Morgenstern; 5 Social comptabilism and pure credit systems; 6 The vanity of rigour in economics; Index

ISBN

• 1-134-28759-3
• 1-134-28760-7
• 1-280-25374-6
• 9786610253746
• 0-203-02359-5

OCLC

• 275307227
• 252745893

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203023594

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