Traditionally, students of economics have often been told that it is a non-experimental science. Using a quantitative … and qualitative analysis of introductory economics textbooks, we track the historical evolution of this rhetoric from 1970 … experimentation in economics. Remarks that experiments are impossible in economics have been (almost) eliminated only this decade …

Contents: Introduction / Arthur Schram and Aljaž Ule -- Part I: Methods of experimental economics -- 1. Incentives … experimental economics / Hande Erkut and Ernesto Reuben -- 4. Data analysis / Peter G. Moffatt -- 5. Replication and other … practices for improving scientific quality in experimental economics / Colin F. Camerer, Anna Dreber, and Magnus Johannesson …

example, made extensive use of game theory, the economics of information, and transaction cost economics in their arguments …