The energy behind Vernon Smith's experimental economics
探讨弗农·史密斯的实验方法不仅基于实证，还包含对新古典需求理论的特殊承诺，通过与哈罗德·霍特林的需求研究对比，揭示其认识论立场。
This paper begins with the interplay of the induced value theory and the Hayek hypothesis, and subsequently suggests that we need to understand Vernon Smith's experimental method as not simply empirical, but encompassing a commitment to a special version of neoclassical demand theory. To this end, we compare his commitment to Harold Hotelling's important work on demand, an exemplar of what we dub the Mirowski–Hands thesis. By providing an overview of Smith's research up until the mid-1970s, we place this progenitor of experimental economics in a new light, revealing his special epistemic commitments.