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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction to Experimental Economics -- I. A Brief History of Experimental Economics -- A. Early Experiments: 1930-1960 -- 1. Individual Choice and the Wallis-Friedman Critique -- 2. Game-Theoretic Hypotheses -- 3. Industrial Organization -- B. The 1960s to the Present -- II. The Uses of Experimentation -- III. Some Series of Experiments -- A. Prisoners' Dilemmas and Public Goods -- 1. The Prisoner's Dilemma -- a. Experiments versus Simulations: A Methodological Digression

Macroeconomics : a survey of laboratory research /John Duffy --Using experimental methods to understand why and how we give to charity /Lise Vesterlund --Neuroeconomics /Colin F. Camerer, Jonathan D. Cohen, Ernst Fehr, Paul W. Glimcher, and David Laibson --Other-regarding preferences : a selective survey of experimental results /David J. Cooper and John H. Kagel --Experiments in market design /Alvin E. Roth --Experiments in political economy /Thomas R. Palfrey --Experimental economics across subject populations /Guillaume R. Fréchette --Gender /Muriel Niederle --Auctions : a survey of experimental research /John H. Kagel and Dan Levin --Learning and the economics of small decisions /Ido Erev and Ernan Haruvy.

This book details the results of the authors' research using laboratory animals to investigate individual choice theory in economics-consumer-demand and labour supply behaviour and choice under uncertainty. The use of laboratory animals provides the opportunity to conduct controlled experiments involving precise and demanding tests of economic theory with rewards and punishments of real consequence. Economic models are compared to psychological and biological choice models along with the results of experiments testing between these competing explanations. Results of animal experiments are used to address questions of social policy importance