Finally, I talked to Yosuke Morishima, a post-doctoral student in micro economics and experimental economic research at the University of Zurich, who told me about a classic behavioral economics study conducted in the mid 1980s.

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David Cesarini, an economist at the Center for Experimental Social Science at New York University, Magnus Johannesson of the Stockholm School of Economics and others have used the database to investigate whether people's genes play a role in determining fairness and financial risk-taking.

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In addition, the tradition and methodology of experimental science is far more developed, and more sophisticated, in medicine than it is in economics.

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