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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.
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
Lexicographical Neighbors of Political Economy
Literary usage of Political economy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The best brief exposition of political economy, substantially in ... Better, iu
some respects, than either is the political economy of the American ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"political economy. Essays on P. economy. Frédéric Bastiat, 11 : 244. ... Eugen V.
political economy. Present condition of economic science. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Where this interdependence is state- or nation-wide, there exists a national
economy or political economy. The term political economy is used in yet a third ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1876)
"FA—The Wages Question $3.50 political economy. {In preparation. ... 8° Manual of
political economy. Сг. 8е Pauperism : its Causes and Remedies. ..."
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