List of Experiments - Economics and Political Science

Economics and Political Science

  • The experiments of Muhammad Yunus on the applications of microcredit and microfinance in rural Bangladesh (1971)
  • Robert Axelrod's prisoner's dilemma computer tournaments, later documented in The Evolution of Cooperation (1984)
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