political economy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. 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”).

Pronunciation

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Word forms

political economy political economies
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