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One of the most significant developments in modern social science is, without doubt, the expansion of economic analysis beyond the customary boundaries of economics into the domains of other disciplinary fields such as law, history, sociology and political science, a development often referred to as “economic imperialism” (Tullock, 1972; Radnitzky and Bernholz, 1987; Swedberg, 1990: 14; Frey, 1999: viii). Public Choice or, as it has also been called, the New Political Economy or Non-Market-Economics has played a prominent role in this development that has significantly changed the relationship between economics and its scientific neighbors. In contrast to the exclusive focus on the mechanics of market forces and the pronounced tendency towards disciplinary isolation that has characterised neoclassical, mainstream economics, the new political economy has systematically extended the “economic perspective” into areas of inquiry that have traditionally been regarded as the domain of other social sciences.
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Vanberg, V.J. (2004). Public Choice from the Perspective of Sociology. In: Rowley, C.K., Schneider, F. (eds) The Encyclopedia of Public Choice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-47828-4_20
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