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Economic theories that have changed us: experimental economics

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Our series continues on economic theories that are changing the way we think. Today, Andreas Ortmann explains experimental economics.


Experimental economics is not really a new theory but a (still) relatively new method of studying the kind of questions that economists have studied for ages. But the addition...

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