political economy
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political economy
noun political economies
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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.
Arguing for a limit on the power of money, [John Maynard Keynes] was faithful to a long tradition of political economy that was concerned with the balance of interests and the dangers of financial domination.
Similar: ergonomics
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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”).
Similar: economics, dismal science, political economy
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noun interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science
| 中文 | 政治經濟學 /政治经济学 zhèngzhì jīngjìxué |
|---|---|
| Français | économie politique |
| Deutsch | politische Ökonomie |
| Română | economie politică |
| Русский | политэконо́мия politɛkonómija, полити́ческая эконо́мия politíčeskaja ekonómija |
| Tiếng Việt | kinh tế chính trị |
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