Economic imperialism (economics)

Economic imperialism (economics)

Economic imperialism in contemporary economics refers to economic analysis of seemingly non-economic aspects of life, such as crime,law, irrational behavior, marriage, prejudice, [Gary S. Becker (1976). "The Economic Approach to Human Behavior". [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=iwEOFKSKbMgC&oi=fnd&pg=PA15&dq=%22The+Economic+Approach+to+Human+Behavior%22+Introduction&ots=3kGFcb-mF&sig=CRs1sWCuH1LI1qI6VHZ2yvds_qI Chapter-link] previews. University of Chicago Press.] politics, [Gordon Tullock (1972). "Economic Imperialism," in "Theory of Public Choice", pp. 317-29. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.] religion, [Laurence R. Iannaccone (1998). "Introduction to the Economics of Religion," "Journal of Economic Literature", 36(3), [http://www.isop.ucla.edu/cms/files/PERG.iannoconne.pdf pp. 1465–1495.] Accessed October 21, 2007.] and war. [David D. Friedman (1984). cite web|url=http://daviddfriedman.com/Academic/economic_of_war/the_economics_of_war.htm |title=The Economics of War, "Blood and Iron: There Will Be War", v. 3, pp. 161-72. Accessdate=2007-01-22.] [Edward P. Lazear )2000), "Economic Imperialism". "Quarterly Journal of Economics". 115(1), p [http://www.jstor.org/pss/2586936 p. 99-] 146. [http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/lazear/personal/pdfs/economic%20imperialism.pdf Pre-publication copy.] ]

An economist who has published on the subject, Ben Fine, prefers to use the term economics imperialism as he has observed that economic imperialism could easily be confused with general imperialism, which is economic by nature. [Ben Fine. ( [http://hetsa.fec.anu.edu.au/review/ejournal/pdf/32-A-2.pdf Economics Imperialism and Intellectual Progress: The Present as History of Economic Thought] . "History of Economics Review."] __NOTOC__

Notes

References

* Gary S. Becker (1992). "The Economic Way of Looking at Life." [http://nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/1992/becker-lecture.html Nobel Prize Lecture] .
* Jack Hirshleifer (1985), "The Expanding Domain of Economics," "American Economic Review", 75(6), p [http://www.jstor.org/pss/1914329 p. 53] -68.

External links

* [http://www.acton.org/publications/randl/rl_interview_76.php Economic Imperialism] (1993). Interview of Gary Becker.

See also

* Cultural economics
* Family economics
* Mainstream economics


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