Laboratory and Field Research:

• Study of exchange systems, both personal and social which have evolved in families and small groups, and in the impersonal market institutions of the world.

• Study and extension of decentralized market solutions to the design of new resource management systems and eventually policies that improve the effectiveness of economic performance.

• Study and use of new and evolving tools of brain science for making more visible certain aspects of brain function that affects human sociality and performance, but that have previously been inaccessible to experiment and direct observation.

Education and Outreach:

• Apprenticeship-based, hands-on learning in markets and group decision processes using laboratory technology for students at all levels from the U.S. and other countries that are a part of team research projects working with teaching/research faculty at George Mason University.

• Workshops in hands-on experimental learning methods for high school students and teachers, undergraduate and graduate students at GMU and elsewhere around the U.S. and the world, and for practitioners in industry and government.

• Development of educational software and transferable learning modules for use in the classroom, outreach demonstrations and undergraduate and graduate student workshops.

• Speaker seminars in experimental economics held at GMU for graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars and other interested parties.

• Conferences and events which promote the timely understanding of the application of experimental economics to real world problems