Abstract

This paper addresses a central question of the experimental turn in economics: how a relatively small group of experimental economists in the 1970s and 1980s managed to convince editors and referees of leading economics journals of the merits of the experimental method. The consequence of this was that, by the early 1990s, experimental economics research became a standard feature of economics journals and of the economics mainstream. I draw on a unique—and, to this date, never utilized—corpus of referee reports (and related correspondence) by Charles Plott, one of the leading pioneers of experimental economics. His publication corpus is used as a case study of how experimental economists sought acceptance in economics journals. I describe a set of nine strategies that he and other early experimental economists used to convince journal editors and referees who had no direct experience with conducting economic experiments of the merits of the experimental method.

中文翻译：

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拒绝拒绝-寻求经济学期刊接受实验经济学

摘要

本文讨论了经济学实验转向的一个核心问题：1970年代和1980年代相对较少的实验经济学家如何说服实验经济学的优点的主要经济学期刊的编辑和裁判。其结果是，到1990年代初，实验经济学研究已成为经济学期刊和经济学主流的标准特征。我借鉴了实验经济学的领先先驱之一查尔斯·普洛特（Charles Plott）撰写的独特的，至今尚未使用的裁判报告（及相关通讯）。他的出版物语料库用作实验经济学家如何寻求经济学期刊接受的案例研究。