This paper aims at presenting the methodological approach to simulations, proposed at the beginning of the sixties by a group of scholars of the Carnegie Mellon University. This approach can be defined cognitive and behavioural, because of the attention to real perception and decision-making and...

The paper discusses the relation between experimental economics and the cognitive approach, after having outlined the chief characteristics of the major lines of research in both areas, also with reference to the historical development and to methodological issues. Then the attention is focused...

The paper aims at: presenting the origins and the recent developments of Experimental Economics; describing the first experiments and the discussions they raised; proposing a picture of the current state of the art in the discipline, also from a methodological point of view, individuating a new...