ABSTRACT
The interface between economics and other disciplines is not something which attracts sustained attention amongst economists. It is the sort of subject about which they might muse in the coffee bar, but they would be unlikely to commit their thoughts to paper. Many people, if asked to produce a prospectus for an overview volume of the present kind, would probably not have included a section on ‘interfaces’. We have chosen to devote a significant proportion of this volume to the subject precisely because it appears to us to be an important but underexplored area.
