Preface -- I. Introduction: What Experiments Can Do in the History of Economic Thought? : From Adam Smith to Vernon Smith -- II. Fairness Ideals, Hidden Selfishness and Opportunistic Behavior: Experimental Approach -- III. What is ‘Fair’ Distribution under Collaboration? : Evidences from...

In economics, the market has been understood to steer behavior towards a competitive equilibrium in which all economic actors behave optimally, and in which welfare of society is maximized. Yet many economists have also seen shortcomings to this ideal picture of the market in the form of limited...

Following the recent publication of the award winning and much acclaimed The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, second edition which brings together Nobel Prize winners and the brightest young scholars to survey the discipline, we are pleased to announce The New Palgrave Economics Collection....

Exceptional Academic Behavior -- Reinhard Selten a Wanderer -- Encounters with Reinhard Selten: An Office Mate’s Report -- Reinhard Selten’s Frankfurt Years from the Perspective of a Co-player -- Reinhard Selten and the Scientific Climate in Frankfurt During the Fifties -- Reinhard Selten...

Martin Hülsen explores individual behavioral trustworthiness of and within the banking industry in Germany based on an economic experiment combined with psychological instruments. He finds that bankers have a reputation for being untrustworthy. However, his evidence also shows that the true...