The social epistemology of experimental economics (Record no. 25421)

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2009002010
ISBN
International Standard Book Number 9780415480505
ISBN
International Standard Book Number 0415480507 (hbk.)
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International Standard Book Number 9780203874332 (ebk.)
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International Standard Book Number 0203874331 (ebk.)
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Call number 330.072/4
MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL AUTHOR
Authors Santos, Ana Cordeiro dos
TITLE STATEMENT
Title The social epistemology of experimental economics
Statement of responsibility, etc. Ana Cordeiro dos Santos
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication London :
Publisher Routledge,
Date 2014.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xi, 210 p. :
Other Details ill. ;
Size 25 cm.
SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Routledge advances in experimental and computable economics
BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
SUMMARY
Summary Any experimental field consists of preparing special conditions for examining interesting objects for research. So naturally, the particular ways in which scientists prepare their objects determine the kind and the content of knowledge produced. This book provides a framework for the analysis of experimental practices - the Social Epistemology of Experiment - that incorporates both the 'material' and the 'social' dimensions of knowledge production. The Social Epistemology of Experiment is applied to experimental economics and in so doing, it introduces the epistemic role of the participation of human subjects in experiments and the causal efficacy of institutions in constraining and enabling human behaviour. It also develops the role of the social and socially established practices in overcoming the methodological difficulties associated with experimenting with humans subjects in the social sciences as well as the effect of scientists' interventions in the laboratory worlds. This book provides an historical and contextualized account of the emergence of experimental economics, the methodological discussions that have informed and constituted it, its main research programmes, and stylized facts. The analysis of its three main research programmes - market experiments, game theory experiments and individual decision-making experiments - shows how economics experiments are particularly tailored to produce knowledge about market institutions and individual behaviour in contexts where there might be conflicts of individual and social goals, and also about the processes of individual decision-making.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading Economics
General Research
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading Experimental economics
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26/01/2017 330.0724 SA SO T0034162 189.00 26/01/2017 REGULAR   Dewey Decimal Classification       University of Wollongong in Dubai University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 19/11/2014 Friendship bookshop