Transcript
  • 00:01    |    
    Initial credits
  • 00:19    |    
    J. R. G: What is Experimental Economics?
  • 02:58    |    
    J. R. G: How were you able to reproduce market conditions in the laboratory?
  • 07:31    |    
    J. R. G: You have performed the experiments with people of many different cultures and ages, and they all behave remarkably the same. Is this one ofn your conclusions?
  • 08:38    |    
    J. R. G: Another remarkable phenomenon is that people tend to converge to the market equilibrium, even if they don't know what the final outcomen will be...
  • 11:01    |    
    J. R. G: What have you learned about what happens when the government intervenes in the market?
  • 22:47    |    
    F. T: In Guatemala many people believe that the government should play a role in making electricity available to the part of the population thatn doesn't have those services; so they dispute the idea that the power industry should be profit-seeking. Why is it important that it be so?
  • 31:52    |    
    F. T: Therefore, what we need to do is to foster competition in the power industry...
  • 35:42    |    
    F. T: What do you believe caused the energy crisis in California?
  • 48:46    |    
    F. T: Do you see a role for Experimental Economics as an economics teaching tool?
  • 56:04    |    
    F. T: Do you think that in the future this will be a more generalized teaching tool?
  • 59:03    |    
    Credits


Interview with Vernon L. Smith

New Media  | 26 de marzo de 2004  | Vistas: 3598

About this video

Vernon L. Smith sits down with José Raúl González and Fritz Thomas to talk about experimental economics. He explains how he was able to reproduce the market conditions by representing the economic diversity and by assigning production costs to those who played the role of producers and consumer costs to those who played the role of buyers. He focuses on how people tend to converge to the market equilibrium without knowing what the final outcome may be and also comments that this equilibrium is reached when people do their best for their own benefit without any constraints. Smith emphasizes the important role that experimental economics plays in the academic world as well as the motivation it gives to students.



Credits

Interview with Vernon L. Smith for Todo a Pulmón
Vernon L. Smith, Jose Raúl González, Fritz Thomas

Special Collections Room
Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Guatemala, March 26, 2004

A New Media - UFM production. Guatemala, March 2004
Camera 1: Matthew Carey; camera 2: Sergio Miranda; camera 3, digital editing: Jorge Samayoa; index: Joseph Cole; synopsis: Sebastian del Buey; synopsis reviser: Daphne Ortiz publication: Fernando De León




Conferencista

Vernon L. Smith was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics…

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