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Jevons, William Stanley - 1904 - Reprinted from the "Contemporary Review" of February, 1880, and from his book, "Methods of Social Reform", by the kind permission of Mrs. Jevons and of Messrs. MacMillan and Co., Ltd.

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List of references on reciprocity

Meyer, Herman H. B. (ed.); Griffin, Appleton P. C. (ed.) - Library of Congress / General Reference and … - 1910 - 2. ed., with additions

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Report on an experimental consignment of Palestine apricots to England

Palästina / Department of Agriculture and Forests - 1929

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Experience with joint-ventures in Yugoslavia

Plötz, Peter - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 10 (1975) 2, pp. 60-62

Yugoslavia laid the legal foundations for capital investments by foreign firms in 1967. It was the first socialist country to permit foreign investments and apart from Roumania and Hungary is still the only one which has done so. Prerequisites have thereby been provided for very close relations...

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Individual notions of distributive justice and relative economic status

Barr, Abigail; Burns, Justine; Miller, Luis; Shaw, Ingrid - School of Economics, University of Nottingham

We present two experiments designed to investigate whether individuals’ notions of distributive justice are associated with their relative (within-society) economic status. Each participant played a specially designed four-person dictator game under one of two treatments, under one initial...

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Risk Aversion in the Large and in the Small

HAUG, Jorgen; HENS, Thorsten; WOHRMANN, Peter

Estimates of agents' risk aversion dier between market studies and experimental studies. We demonstrate that the estimates can be reconciled through consistent treatment of agents' tendency for narrow framing, regarding integration of background wealth as well as across risky outcomes: Risk...

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Introduction to Experimental Economics

Davis, Douglas D.; Holt, Charles A. - Princeton University Press

This is the first comprehensive treatment of laboratory experiments designed to evaluate economic propositions under … carefully controlled conditions. While it acknowledges that laboratory experiments are no panacea, it argues cogently for their … only a textbook but also a useful introduction to laboratory methods for professional economists. The emphasis is on …

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An Experimental Study of Costly Coordination

Holt, Charles A.; Goeree, Jacob K. - University of Virginia, Department of Economics

This paper reports data for coordination game experiments with random matching. The experimental design is based on changes in an effort-cost parameter, which do not alter the set of Nash equilibria, nor do they alter the predictions of dynamic adjustment theories based on imitation or best...

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Payoff Information and Self-Confirming Equilibrium

Dekel, Eddie; Fudenberg, Drew; Levine, David K. - ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution …

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Using Laboratory Experiments to Study Law and Crime

Horne, Christine; Rauhut, Heiko - Department of Management, Technology and Economics …

The 19th and 20th centuries produced breakthroughs in physics, chemistry, and the biological sciences. Laboratory … research played an important role in the rapid advances made in these fields. Laboratory research can also contribute progress … laboratory experiments can and cannot do. We then identify three issues in the criminological and legal literature: why violence …

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