political economy

noun

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: the theory or study of the role of public policy in influencing the economic and social welfare of a political unit
political economist noun

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An applied micro-economist, Bertrand conducts research in the fields of labor economics, corporate finance, political economy and development economics. Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024 David Zetland, an assistant professor at the University of Leiden who researches the political economy of water, recounts the story of an American entrepreneur who planned to fill a giant plastic bag with glacier water and use a tugboat to pull it from Alaska to California. Ole Ellekrog, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024 In the second year, students select a topic of concentration and pursue in-depth course work on this topic (among three areas: international political economy, international security, regional cultural, economic and political development). Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024 Early capitalism and its disciplinary concomitant, the then-nascent field of political economy, understood workers not as people, with a craving for vastness, but as animals, who aspire to nothing more ornate than subsistence. Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for political economy 

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First Known Use

1868, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of political economy was in 1868

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“Political economy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/political%20economy. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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