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the 1970s has expanded beyond the model of economic policy in which planners ma
ximize utility of a representative individual toward examining how political for
ces affect the choice of economic policies, especially as to distributional conf
licts and political institutions.[4] It is available as an area of study in cert
ain colleges and universities.
Contents [hide]
1
Etymology
2
Current approaches
3
Related disciplines
4
See also
5
Notes
6
References
7
Journals
8
External links
Etymology[edit]
Originally, political economy meant the study of the conditions under which prod
uction or consumption within limited parameters was organized in nation-states.
In that way, political economy expanded the emphasis of economics, which comes f
rom the Greek oikos (meaning "home") and nomos (meaning "law" or "order"). Thus,
political economy was meant to express the laws of production of wealth at the
state level, just as economics was the ordering of the home. The phrase conomie p
olitique (translated in English as political economy) first appeared in France i
n 1615 with the well-known book by Antoine de Montchrtien, Trait de l economie polit
ique. The French physiocrats, along with Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, David Ric
ardo, Henry George, and Karl Marx were some of the exponents of political econom
y. The world's first professorship in political economy was established in 1754
at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy (then capital city of the Kingdom
of Naples). The Neapolitan philosopher Antonio Genovesi was the first tenured p
rofessor. In 1763, Joseph von Sonnenfels was appointed a Political Economy chair
at the University of Vienna, Austria. Thomas Malthus, in 1805, became England's
first professor of political economy, at the East India Company College, Hailey
bury, Hertfordshire. Glasgow University, where Adam Smith had been Professor of
Logic and of Moral Philosophy, changed the name of its Department of Political E
conomy to the Department of Economics (ostensibly to avoid confusing prospective
undergraduates), in the academic year 1997 98. This left the class of 1998 as the
last to be graduated with a Master of Arts in Political Economy.
In the United States, political economy first was taught at the College of Willi
am and Mary, where in 1784, Smith's The Wealth of Nations was a required textboo
k.[5]
Current approaches[edit]
Robert Keohane, international relations theorist
In its contemporary meaning, political economy refers to different, but related,
approaches to studying economic and related behaviours, ranging from the combin
ation of economics with other fields to the use of different, fundamental assump
tions that challenge earlier economic assumptions:
Political economy most commonly refers to interdisciplinary studies drawing upon
economics, sociology, and political science in explaining how political institu
tions, the political environment, and the economic system
capitalist, socialist,
or mixed influence each other.[6] The Journal of Economic Literature classifica
tion codes associate political economy with three subareas: the role of governme
nt and/or power relationships in resource allocation for each type of economic s
ystem,[7] international political economy, which studies the economic impacts of
international relations,[8] and economic models of political processes.[9] The
last area, derived from public choice theory and dating from the 1960s, models v
oters, politicians, and bureaucrats as behaving in mainly self-interested ways,
lated to political economy. In the second half of the 20th century, lawyers asso
ciated with the Chicago School incorporated certain intellectual traditions from
economics. Since the crisis in 2007, however, legal scholars especially related
to international law, have turned to more explicitly engage with the debates, m
ethodology and various themes within political economy texts.[39][40]
Related disciplines[edit]
Because political economy is not a unified discipline, there are studies using t
he term that overlap in subject matter, but have radically different perspective
s:
Sociology studies the effects of persons' involvement in society as members of g
roups, and how that changes their ability to function. Many sociologists start f
rom a perspective of production-determining relation from Karl Marx. Marx's theo
ries on the subject of political economy are contained in his book Das Kapital.
Anthropology studies political economy by investigating regimes of political and
economic value that condition tacit aspects of sociocultural practices (e.g., t
he pejorative use of pseudo-Spanish expressions in the US entertainment media) b
y means of broader historical, political, and sociological processes. Analyses o
f structural features of transnational processes focus on the interactions betwe
en the world capitalist system and local cultures.
Archaeology attempts to reconstruct past political economies by examining the ma
terial evidence for administrative strategies to control and mobilize resources.
[41] This evidence may include architecture, animal remains, evidence for craft
workshops, evidence for feasting and ritual, evidence for the import or export o
f prestige goods, or evidence for food storage.
Psychology is the fulcrum on which political economy exerts its force in studyin
g decision making (not only in prices), but as the field of study whose assumpti
ons model political economy.
History documents change, often using it to argue political economy; some histor
ical works take political economy as the narrative's frame.
Human geography at times draws on theories of politico-economic processes. Typic
ally under the moniker of political ecology, political ecology has been used by
geographers to understand human systems and their relationship with the environm
ent, broadly defined.[42]
Ecology deals with political economy, because human activity has the greatest ef
fect upon the environment, its central concern being the environment's suitabili
ty for human activity. The ecological effects of economic activity spur research
upon changing market economy incentives.
Cultural studies examines social class, production, labor, race, gender, and sex
.
Communications examines the institutional aspects of media and telecommuncation
systems. As the area of study focusing on aspects of human communication, it pay
s particular attention to the relationships between owners, labor, consumers, ad
vertisers, structures of production, and the state, and the power relationships
embedded in these relationships.
See also[edit]
Economic sociology
Economic study of collective action
Constitutional economics
European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)
Economic ideology
Institutional economics
Land value tax
Law of rent
Important publications in political economy
Perspectives on Capitalism
Social model
Social capital
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of Political Economy. Oxford UP. Description and preview.
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Brandt, Loren, and Thomas G. Rawski (2008). "Chinese economic reforms," The N
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Gilpin, Robert (2001), Global Political Economy: Understanding the Internatio
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Mitra, Devashish (2008). "trade policy, political economy of," The New Palgra
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Tullock, Gordon ([1987] 2008). "public choice," The New Palgrave Dicti
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Arrow, Kenneth J. (1963). Social Choice and Individual Values, 2nd ed., ch. V
III, sect. 2, The Social Decision Process, pp. 106-08.
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Mueller, Dennis C. (2008). "constitutions, economic approach to,' The
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition. Abstract.
Buchanan, James M., and Gordon Tullock (1962). The Calculus of Consent. Unive
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Hayek, Friedrich A. (1973). Rules and Order, Description and chapter-preview
links.
Brennan, Geoffrey, and James M. Buchanan (1985). The Reason of Rules: Constit
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_____ (1984). A Game-Theoretic Approach to Political Economy. MIT Press. Desc
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_____ (1999). Political Economy, Oligopoly and Experimental Games: The Select
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Peter C. Ordeshook (1990). "The Emerging Discipline of Political Economy," ch
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Sturzenegger, Federico, and Mariano Tommasi (1998). The Poltical Economy of Re
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_____ (2000). Transition and Economics: Politics, Markets, and Firms, MIT Pre
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Journals[edit]
Constitutional Political Economy
Economics & Politics
European Journal of Political Economy
Latin American Perspectives
International Journal of Political Economy
New Political Economy
Description, aims & scope.
Public Choice
Studies in Political Economy
External links[edit]
Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Political Economy
Wikisource has the text of the 1905 New International Encyclopedia artic
le Political Economy.
The Economic Sociology and Political Economy global academic community
NBER (U.S.) "Political Economy" working-paper abstract links.
VoxEU.org (Europe) "Politics and economics" article links.
List, Friedrich. National System of Political Economy
Carey, Henry C. Harmony of Interests - compares American and British systems[cla
rification needed] of political economy
International Political Economy at Jacobs University Bremen
Global Political Economy at City University London
Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex, UK
O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at the SMU Cox School of Business D
allas, TX USA
Institute for the study of Political Economy and Law (IPEL) at the International
University College of Turin (IUC), Italy
European Centre for International Political Economy
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