intressieconomic

Intressieconomic is an interdisciplinary field that studies how different interests influence economic behavior, markets, and policy decisions. The word blends "interest"—the stakes and motivations of actors—with "economic" analysis.

The field draws on political economy, public choice, behavioral economics, and stakeholder theory. It investigates how lobbying, consumer advocacy, investor priorities, and public welfare concerns interact with prices, allocation of resources, and regulation.

Methods include empirical analysis of lobbying data, voting records, and regulatory outcomes; lab and field experiments; network analysis; and computational models that simulate strategic behavior under varying interest configurations.

Applications range from evaluating regulatory policy and governance to designing markets and auctions that align diverse interests. It also informs debates about regulatory capture, equity, efficiency, and social welfare.

Critiques center on definitional ambiguity—what counts as an "interest"—and on potential normative bias in shaping what counts as desirable outcomes. Data on private interests can be incomplete or opaque.

As data availability grows and computational methods advance, intressieconomic may intersect with data science, platform economies, and AI-assisted policy analysis, offering tools to map and mediate conflicts among stakeholders.