Saturday, May 05, 2007

Modern Econmen: Vernon Smith

在網路上找到的影片: 經濟學家還真是diverse

Smith 是實驗經濟學之父:
"In the Autumn semester, 1955, I taught Principles of Economics, and found it a challenge to convey basic microeconomic theory to students. Why/how could any
market approximate a competitive equilibrium? I resolved that on the first day
of class the following semester, I would try running a market experiment that
would give the students an opportunity to experience an actual market, and me
the opportunity to observe one in which I knew, but they did not know what were
the alleged driving conditions of supply and demand in that market."

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