The explosion of information and research that has taken place in recent years has had a
profound effect upon a variety of existing academic disciplines giving rise to the dissolution
of barriers between some, mergers between others, and the creation of entirely new fields of
enquiry. The social sciences have not been immune to the effects of this transformation, but
a great deal of relevant information that has been discovered in related fields of study that
include inter alia sociology, psychology, history and anthropology, still has yet to be fully
incorporated into the central body of economic doctrines traditionally taught in colleges
and universities. Economics, as a result, has been shielded from exciting developments that
have occurred in the physical sciences, philosophy, technology and mathematics.

The Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics is a forum in which those who wish to expand
the boundaries of economic science, are invited to seek out the hidden assumptions that
determine the conventional economist’s world view, relax them and so evolve a new
discipline more appropriate to the contemporary global environment within which the
discipline exists, and so enable economists to tackle problems that have been created within
that environment. This process of rethinking will be encouraged by papers written by those
who wish to contribute, by the editor or members of the editorial board, and attention will
be drawn to neglected boundary areas and axioms that may not be self-evident. Papers
and comments are also welcomed, again not necessarily from professional and academic
economists, in response to the papers and comments.