“Three precepts are offered to constitute a foundation for the use of laboratory experimental methods in testing hypotheses about the behavior of allocation mechanisms.”

—  Vernon L. Smith

Source: "Relevance of laboratory experiments to testing resource allocation theory," 1980, p. 346.

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