Economic imperialism (economics)
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Economic imperialism (sometimes economics imperialism[1]) in contemporary economics refers to economic analysis of seemingly non-economic aspects of life, such as crime, law, irrational behavior, the family, prejudice,[2] politics,[3] sociology,[4] religion,[5] war,[6][7] science and research.[8]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Ben Fine (2000) "Economics Imperialism and Intellectual Progress: The Present as History of Economic Thought?" History of Economics Review 32, pp. 10-36.
- ^ Gary S. Becker (1976). The Economic Approach to Human Behavior. Description.
- ^ Gordon Tullock (1972). "Economic Imperialism," in Theory of Public Choice, pp. 317-29. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
- ^ Richard Swedberg (1990). Economics and Sociology: Redefining Their Boundaries: Conversations with Economists and Sociologists. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691003769, ISBN 9780691003764 Descriptiion and chapter-preview links, pp. v- vi.
- ^ Laurence R. Iannaccone (1998). "Introduction to the Economics of Religion," Journal of Economic Literature, 36(3), pp. 1465–1495. Press +.
- ^ David D. Friedman (1984). "The Economics of War". http://daviddfriedman.com/Academic/economic_of_war/the_economics_of_war.htm., Blood and Iron: There Will Be War, v. 3, pp. 161-72.
- ^ Edward P. Lazear (2000). "Economic Imperialism," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115(1), pp. 99-146. Press +.
- ^ Arthur M. Diamond, Jr. (2008). "science, economics of," in S.N. Durlauf and L.E. Blume, ed., The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, Abstract and pre-publication copy.
[edit] References
- Gary S. Becker (1992). "The Economic Way of Looking at Life." Nobel Prize Lecture.
- Jack Hirshleifer (1985), "The Expanding Domain of Economics," American Economic Review, 75(6), pp. 53-68.
[edit] External links
- Economic Imperialism (1993). Interview of Gary Becker.

