id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 6q182j64s06 Kyu Sang Lee Rationality, Minds, and Machines in the Laboratory: A Thematic History of Vernon Smith's Experimental Economics 2004 .txt text/plain 353 10 20 Our historical narrative in Chapter 3 is intended to clarify that computer experience and computational theory drove the development of Reiter' version of mechanism design economics, and that they also (partially) shaped some crucial events in the history of Smith's version of experimental economics. In Part 1, we describe the origin of mechanism design economics, and offer a detailed explanation of the analytical kinship between Smith's 'microeconomic system theory' and the standard theoretical framework utilized in mechanism design economics. cache/6q182j64s06.txt txt/6q182j64s06.txt