Talk:Economics imperialism

message: Non-economic areas of life? This must be the work of a non-economist?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.241.78.50 (talk) 10:10, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-economic areas

message: The pre-25 April 2008 Edit of the article was restored (wiht slight editing to restore a link).  The reason is that the 25 April  Edit completely changed the subject of the article and usage of the article title, which is a valid usage attested at for example the top Google Scholar hit: Edward Lazear, "Economic Imperialism". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. February 2000, Vol. 115, No. 1, pp. 99-146
Another usage, to which the recent Edit was referring, is that at the above Google School hit #6 for the same term: David S. Landes, "Some Thoughts on the Nature of Economic Imperialism," The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Dec., 1961), pp. 496-512.
A suggestion wiuld be the other usage have a separate article & title (say "Economic imperialism (politics)").  --Thomasmeeks (talk) 21:00, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Another possbile title for the above alternative usage that would fit well with a usage of political economy is "Economic imperialism (political economy)". --Thomasmeeks (talk) 13:24, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Earlier Edit restored

message: Wanted to stick this here so I didn't lose it...
:Together, tradition- and command-run societies constitute the vast preponderance of all known, or inferred, social entities, but as I have tried to show, economics supplies no operational insight into their workings. -  Robert L. Heilbroner, Putting economics in its place - Defining the Boundaries of Social Inquiry
Economics offers by far the best insight into the workings of tradition and command-run societies...
:A travelling party of Potawatomis, for three days finding no game, were in great distress for want of food.  On the third night, a chief, named Saugana, had a dream, wherein a person appearing to him showed him that they were suffering because they had set out without a sacrificial feast.  He had started on this important journey, the dreamer said, "as a white man would," without making any religious preparation.  Therefore the Great Spirit had punished them with scarcity. - Edward Tylor, Primitive culture
If I'm hungry then I'll go to Subway and sacrifice/destroy $5 in exchange for a sandwich.  There's an obvious causality between loss/sacrifice and gain/profit.  However, if somebody is an atheist then the causality between sacrificing to Great Spirits and finding game is nonobvious.  Why do we give our taxes/sacrifices to intermediaries/congress?  We do so because we think the causality is obvious when in reality it isn't.  Sacrificing to "false" gods is simply a waste of limited resources.  Markets produce abundance because each and every one of us is free to make our sacrifices to organizations that we as individuals perceive to have to the most obvious causality.  --Xerographica (talk) 15:52, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticisms section 

message: Is this a derogatory term, as with e.g. "linguistic imperialism"? If it's not used neutrally we should mention that. Equinox ◑ 19:39, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this a derogatory term? 

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message: On 9 February 2017 someone moved this article from Economics imperialism to Economics empiricism, claiming “Though economics can be done "imperially", in this case we're talking about empiricism”. This is ridiculous—the concept has nothing to do with empiricism, which is the use of observation. The imperialism dealt with is in both theoretical and empirical contexts. I’m going to move the page back. Loraof (talk) 18:19, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad page move