TY - BOOK AU - Svorenčík,Andrej AU - Maas,Harro ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - The Making of Experimental Economics: Witness Seminar on the Emergence of a Field SN - 9783319209524(ebook:PDF) U1 - 330.01 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing(Imprint) KW - Behavioral/Experimental Economics KW - Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods KW - Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences KW - History of Economic Thought/Methodology KW - Methodology of the Social Sciences N1 - A Witness Seminar on the Emergence of Experimental Economics -- The Very Beginnings -- The Growth of a Community -- Funding -- Knowledge and Skills -- Laboratories -- History and Future -- Episodes from the Early History of Experimentation in Economics -- Biographies of Participants N2 - This book is the transcript of a witness seminar on the history of experimental economics, in which eleven high-profile experimental economists participated, including Nobel Laureates Vernon Smith, Reinhard Selten and Alvin Roth. The witness seminar was constructed along four different topics: skills, community, laboratory, and funding. The transcript is preceded by an introduction explaining the method of the witness seminar and its specific set-up, and resuming its results. The participants' contribution and their lively discussion provide a wealth of insights into the emergence of experimental economics as a field of research. UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20952-4 ER -