Experimental findings in economics circulate and reinforce the facts of the field

Evidence

The outcome of the experiment does not end with the publication and circulation of its findings. These were now available to be folded back into further projects and experiments of neoliberalism, helping to secure the facts of economics. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1980

Categorization

• SEED: An angle on how economic ‘facts’ are socially constructed through circulation of experiment results across a movement network.
• XREF: connects to: Academic findings directly spawned commercial investment products — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial…, 438; A German economist proposed grounding economics in empirical behavioral sciences rather than abstractions — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 328; Neoliberal restructuring programs served as whole-economy experiments producing economic facts. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1917 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Prior experiments determine which economic facts even become available and plausible #expands (0.90) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1986