The cat economySourced
Cat fever got its own
economic buzzword.
In Japan, spending on cat goods, cafés, and cat-related tourism has been dubbed “nekonomics,” a play on “Abenomics.” Famous stationmaster cats helped make the phenomenon visible.
Even an economic term
went feline.
Summary / translation: Unbubly · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source and reuse details
Nekonomics · Wikimedia contributors
Adapted, summarized and translated from the source. Adapted text is also available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Reviewed: 2026-10-01