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Resources

• Resources for Economists on the Internet by Bill Goffe at the University of Southern Mississippi.
• The American Economic Association's BIBLIOGRAPHY of Economic Literature
• Economics Data Sources at WEB Ec
• Yahoo for Economists Not too exiting....

Economics Departments

• in the United States --- IMPRESSIVE ! seems to be quite complete....
• all over the world --- not very complete but helpful...

Organizations

Economic
• The American Economic Association (AEA) has a Directory of Membershttp and a NEW AEAweb
• The European Economic Association (EEA) is Europe's largest professional organisation.
• The Royal Economic Society (RES) is the main professional organisation in the United Kingdom.
• Verein fuer Socialpolitik (the "German Economic Society")
• Gesellschaft fuer experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung  (Society for Experimental Economic Research) is located in Germany; and probably the world's oldest society of its kind!
• The Economic Science Association (ESA)

...is a professional organization whose members focus on developing economics as an observational science. Research in the area employs controlled experiments as a means of understanding economic behavior.
They now have their own journal.... Experimental Economics

International

• World Bank Group
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• European Union (EU)
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• United Nations (UN)
• World Health Organisation (WHO)
• International Labour Organization (ILO)

National and Other

• Governments on the WWW good overview!
• European Governments on the WWW
• Swiss Confederation in four (!) languages
• The Canton of St.Gallen in German only
• Nobelpreise, and The Nobel Foundation

  Homepages of some Economists

• Directory of Economists with Web Pages by John Irons at MIT

 My former hosts

• Robert J. Barro at Harvard
• Ken Binmore at the Economics Department of University College London and the Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution
• Al Roth has a  Game Theory and Experimental Economics Page at NEW at Harvard University 

Al's page is a must for all experimentalists and especially those who are interested in experimental game theory and/or economic learning!

Some interesting personal pages

• Thomas Brenner at the Max-Planck-Institute in Jena
• Vincent Crawford at the University of California, San Diego
• George Loewenstein at Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh
• Larry Samuelson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Daniel McFadden at the University of California, Berkeley
• Hal Varian at Berkeley
• Drew Fudenberg at Harvard
• David Levine at UCLA
• Marco Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, Managerial Economics, TU Dresden
• A. Allan Schmid at Michigan State has a page on Institutional and Behavioral Economics

  World-Wide Pages on Experimental Economics   

Experimental Laboratories and Centers
• Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision-Making at the University of Amsterdam.
• Economic Science Lab at the University of Arizona
• Laboratory of Experimental Economics at the University of Bonn
• Laboratory for Experimental Economics and Political Science at Cal Tech
• Learning and Experimental Economics by Dan Friedman at the University of California
• Experimental Economics Laboratory at the University of East Anglia
• Ratio-Lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Experimental Lab at the University of Mannheim
• Experimental Economics Laboratory at McMaster University
• Experimental Economics Research Program at the University of New Mexico
• Laboratori d'Economia Experimental at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona
• Computable and Experimental Economics Lab at the University of Trento
• Experimental Economics and Applied Game Theory at the University of Wyoming
• Experimental economics listserver. by the Centre of Experimental Economics at the University of York
• Experimental Economics - Computer Laboratory at the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich
• Comlabgames are games in strategic and extensive form that can be played over the Internet (at Carnegie Mellon University).

Some People who do experiments

• Jim Andreoni at the University of Wisconsin
• Ken Binmore at UCL
• Timothy Cason at Purdue University
• Colin Camerer at Caltech
• Rachel Croson at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
• Ernst Fehr at the University of Zurich
• Dan Friedman at the of University of California, Santa Cruz
• Werner Guth at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Glenn Harrison at the University of South Carolina
• Charles Holt at the University of Virginia
• John van Huyck's page on Game Theory and Experimental Economics
• John Kagel at the University of Pittsburgh
• Graham Loomes at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
• Charlie Plott at Caltech
• Al Roth at Harvard
• Vernon Smith at the University of Arizona
• Bob Sugden at the University of East Anglia, UK

  Printed Stuff in (Experimental) Economics

• The Handbook of Experimental Economics by John. H. Kagel and Alvin E. Roth (Eds.), Princeton University Press, 1995. (ISBN 0-691-04290-X). Paperback edition, Fall 1997. [see Table of Contents]

This books provides easy to read overviews and references to almost every branch of experimental economics. It is truly a handbook and a MUST for everyone interested in experimental economics.
• Experimental Economics by Douglas D. Davis and Charles A. Holt, Princeton University Press, 1993.

A good introduction to experimental economics. Includes a very useful section on experimental design and statistical methods - especially non-parametric methods (Chap. 9).
• Experimental Methods - A Primer for Economists by Daniel Friedman and Shyam Sunder, Cambridge University Press, 1994.

A brief introduction to the methods of experimental economics that outlines the basics of doing experiments.
• Experiments with Economic Principles by Theodore C. Bergstrom and John H. Miller, McGraw-Hill, 1997. [see Table of Contents]

Explains how to introduce economic principles by doing experiments in the classroom. The thirteen experiments presented are ready to go and give students excellent intuition how the principles actually work.

• Game Theory and the Social Contract - Playing Fair (Vol. 1) by Ken Binmore, MIT Press, 1994. [see pubisher's comment]

Ken Binmore argues that game theory provides a systematic tool for investigating ethical matters. His reinterpretation of classical social contract ideas within a game-theoretic framework generates new insights into the fundamental questions of social philosophy. He clears the way for this ambitious endeavor by first focusing on foundational issues -- paying particular attention to the failings of recent attempts to import game -- theoretic ideas into social and political philosophy. The book makes game-theoretic ideas more widely accessible to those with only a limited knowledge of the field. Instructional material is woven into the narrative, which is illustrated with many simple examples, and the mathematical content has been reduced to a minimum.
• Game Theory and the Social Contract - Just Playing (Vol. 2) by Ken Binmore, MIT Press, 1998. [see pubisher's comment]

"Ken Binmore's Game Theory and the Social Contract is the most important work in social philosophy since John Rawls' Theory of Justice. It is highly original, insightful, and will be a focal point for social theory."
[Brian Skyrms, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine]

Written for an interdisciplinary audience, "Just Playing" offers a panoramic tour through a range of new and disturbing insights that game theory brings to anthropology, biology, economics, philosophy, and psychology. It is essential reading for anyone who thinks it likely that ethics evolved along with the human species.

• American Economic Review by the American Economic Association (AEA).
• Constitutional Political Economy founded by James Buchanan (Editor's Journal Homepage).
• Economic Journal by the Royal Economic Society (RES).
• Elsevier Science, Journals and more from North-Holland.
• European Economic Review by the European Economic Association (EEA).
• Experimental Economics by the Economic Science Association (ESA).
• Games and Economic Behavior
• International Journal of Game Theory
• Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
• Journal of Economic Education
• Journal of Economic Perspectives
• Journal of Economic Literature

• Economic Journals on the Web gives a longer list of journals available on WWW.
• This List of Economics Journals is even longer......

• Economic Working Papers provided by the Economics Department of Washington University, with JEL Classification.
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) with NBER Working Papers
• Economic Working Papers on the Internet, classified by Departments/Universities
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has an Electronic Library for downloading working papers in economics.

University Press

• Harvard
• The MIT Press
• Oxford
• Scandinavian
• Much more to be found at Association of American University Presses

    Fun Stuff Section

Top Reasons to Study Economics

You get to talk about money without actually having any. You learn about protection and elastic demand. Mick Jagger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Ronald Reagan studied economics and look where it got them. It is the only discipline where two people can share a Nobel Prize for saying contradictory things. You learn about all of the interesting uses of an invisible hand. At least you know why you are in the unemployment line. When you get drunk, you can say that you were doing research on the law of diminishing marginal utility. Economist do it with models.... For more of that, go to the Economist Jokes.

  Links

• The Internet Sailing Magazine for all who like this sport like I do...
• Yacht, the German Sailing Magazine now online (in German only, but nice pictures to download)
• SWR 3, best radio station around here...
• If you are interested in visual illusions,

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Created by Tilman Slembeck, September 1995 - Last update: 22 May, 2000