Experimental Economics: Science or What?
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Do we want experimental economics to evolve into a genuine science? This paper uses the literature on inequity aversion as a case study in warning that we are at risk of losing the respect of other scientific disciplines if we continue to accept the wide claims about human behavior that are currently being advanced without examining either the data from which the claims are supposedly derived or the methodology employed in analyzing the data. Experimental Economics: Science or What? by Ken Binmore and Avner Shaked1
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تاریخ انتشار 2007