and whether socially responsible investment can be a social institution for corporate governance.The book is also addressed to philosophers of social sciences interested in how experimental methods can contribute to developing cognition of human behaviors and be extended to social theories.
Natsuka Tokumaru, Lecturer (Dr.), Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japantokumaru@econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Preface.- I. Introduction: What Experiments Can Do in the History of Economic Thought? : From Adam Smith to Vernon Smith.- II. Fairness Ideals, Hidden Selfishness and Opportunistic Behavior: Experimental Approach.- III. What is ‘Fair’ Distribution under Collaboration? : Evidences from Lab-Experiments.- IV. Income Sharing between Workers and Investors: Experiments on Functional Income Distribution.- V. Socially Responsible Investment: Distribution among Investors, Enterprises, and Society.- VI. From Micro-Analysis to Social Theory: Wieser's Gedankenexperiment and Social Economics.- VII. Conclusion: From Empirical Behavioral Theory to Evolutionary Theory of Institution.- Appendix.