political economy

noun

1

: economics

2

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

political economist noun

Examples of political economy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Climate change and technological development are altering the nature of competitive advantage–and with it the political economy of trade. —Bybørge Brende, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2024

Chile’s traditional political economy was like an old donkey: slow, half-blind, and incapable of carrying much. —Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 15 May 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1868, in the meaning defined at sense 1