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- Title
Introduction.
- Authors
Pitt, Joseph C.; Salehi‐Isfahani, Djavad; Eckel, Douglas
- Abstract
This section discusses the characteristics of public choice as a field. Its prominence owes as much to its impact on economics, which transformed public finance and political economy, as to its impact on other disciplines--most importantly political science, sociology and philosophy. The development of public choice and its integration into this range of fields follows a pattern characteristic of the birth and growth of an academic field. The stages in the development of a new field of inquiry are: (1) Birth, where fields emerge under at least three different sets of circumstances, (2) Gestation, a period of time in which the innovation itself is developed, played with, focused, calibrated, elaborated and refined, (3) Development, wherein practitioners within the new field apply the innovation to issues outside the field's normal domain, (4) Socialization, which implies the recognition of the usefulness of the new ideas by practitioners outside the new field, (5) Resistance, wherein the establishment of the invaded field resists the introduction of new ideas and (6) Acceptance, wherein the diffusion of an innovation into other areas does not necessarily result in abandoning traditional techniques used in those areas.
- Subjects
SOCIAL choice; SOCIOECONOMICS; POLITICAL science; SOCIAL psychology
- Publication
American Journal of Economics & Sociology, 2004, Vol 63, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0002-9246
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1536-7150.2004.00271.x