Given a premise, retrieve a hypothesis that is entailed by the premise.(If you doubt this, read Matt Ridley's excellent new book, The Origins of Virtue .) That's one reason the ever expanding scope of economic activity is essentially a force of nature--it can be guided, it can be slowed, but it can't, realistically, be stopped.
Economics has a very wide read and can never be stopped.
Economics can be stopped by the government.