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political economy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science in explaining how political institutions, the political environment, and the economic system—capitalist, socialist, mixed, etc.—influence each other.
   • Arguing for a limit on the power of money, [John Maynard Keynes] was faithful to a long tradition of political economy that was concerned with the balance of interests and the dangers of financial domination. 2012 July 8, Maurice Glasman, “We need to talk about Keynes – and his Viagra economics”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
   • Ten years ago, David Simon's iconic TV series The Wire portrayed contemporary Baltimore as wracked by illegal drug use, violent crime and failing institutions. But underneath the symptoms were the structures of political economy. As the show's tagline had it, "everything is connected". 2017 July 20, David Ritter, “Dirty coal to dirty politics: everything is connected through a malformed political economy”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
   • Everywhere, international opposition to capitalism's global reach would have been fiercer; the Wall Street–City of London–Frankfurt axis that was to shape so much of global political economy in the 1990s and beyond would have been weaker. 2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 5, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
2. (archaic, uncountable) Synonym of economics (“the study of resource and wealth allocation, consumption, and distribution, of capital and investment, and of management of the factors of production”).

Forms

Deriveds

political economics · political-economic · political economist

Synonyms

dismal science · ergonomics · economics · political economy · economics

Translations (19)

de politische Ökonomie (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · ka პოლიტეკონომიკა (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · ru полити́ческая эконо́мия (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · et poliitiline ökonoomia (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · ka პოლიტეკონომია (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · nl politieke economie (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · ro economie politică (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · fi poliittinen kansantaloustiede (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · ka პოლიტიკური ეკონომიკა (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · fr économie politique (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · sv politisk ekonomi (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · hu politikai gazdaságtan (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · nl staathuishoudkunde (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · gl economía política (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · pl ekonomia polityczna (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · cmn 政治經濟學 /政治经济学 (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · vi kinh tế chính trị (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · ka პოლიტიკური ეკონომია (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science) · ru политэконо́мия (interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science)