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.


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

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Political Economy

political asylum
political boss
political campaign
political climate
political commissar
political conservative
political conservatives
political consumerism
political contribution
political correctitude
political correctness
political correctnesses
political detainee
political dissident
political donation
political economy (current term)
political football
political hack
political incorrectness
political leader
political liberty
political machine
political movement
political opposition
political orientation
political parties
political party
political platform
political price fixing
political prisoner

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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