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."
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