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Experimental Economics: Hard Science or Wasteful Tinkering

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Starmer, C.

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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.

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Paper provided by Economics Research Centre, University of East Anglia, School of Economics and Social Studies in its series University of East Anglia - Economics Research Centre with number 9802.

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Date of creation: 1998
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Keywords: EXPERIMENTS;

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