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Definition of Political economy
1. Noun. The branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management.
Exact synonyms: Economic Science, Economics
Examples of category: Production, Gresham's Law, Economic Theory, Game Theory, Theory Of Games, Spillover, Capital Account, Consumption, Economic Consumption, Usance, Use, Use Of Goods And Services, Utility, Marginal Utility, Productivity, Monopoly, Monopsony, Oligopoly, Moral Hazard, Easy, Tight, Easy, Real, Nominal, Inflationary, Deflationary
Terms within: Economic Theory
Generic synonyms: Social Science
Specialized synonyms: Econometrics, Finance, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Supply-side Economics
Examples of category: Production, Gresham's Law, Economic Theory, Game Theory, Theory Of Games, Spillover, Capital Account, Consumption, Economic Consumption, Usance, Use, Use Of Goods And Services, Utility, Marginal Utility, Productivity, Monopoly, Monopsony, Oligopoly, Moral Hazard, Easy, Tight, Easy, Real, Nominal, Inflationary, Deflationary
Terms within: Economic Theory
Generic synonyms: Social Science
Specialized synonyms: Econometrics, Finance, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Supply-side Economics
Definition of Political economy
1. Noun. (economics) Interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science in explaining how political institutions, the political environment, and the economic system — capitalist, socialist, mixed — influence each other. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com