Economies in the lab: Completeness vs. testability

Journal of Economic Methodology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 185-196

  Guala, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experiments; Methodology; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444439620     PISSN: 1350178X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501780500086024     Document Type: Article

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