This paper uses laboratory experiments as tools allowing to weigh comparatively some of the new models of decision making under risk which have been proposed in the last twenty years to describe behavior towards risk. These models rest on diverging interpretations of the observed gaps with...

This survey of the symposium papers argues that the problem of data mining should be of interest to both practicing econometricians and specialists in economic methodology. After summarizing some of the main points to arise in the symposium, it draws on recent work in the philosophy of science...