ABSTRACT
Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could it ever be one? And should it be so? These are just a few of the questions this book tries to answer. It involves a critical reflection on the literature of the process of what has been called ‘economic imperialism’ or ‘economics imperialism’, our preferred term.1 By this is meant the colonisation of the subject matter of other social sciences by economics. Put in other words, the subject matter of the book at hand is the shifting boundaries between economics and social sciences as seen from the confines of the dismal science, with some reflection on the responses to the economic imperialists by other social sciences.
