Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)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.

    politische Ökonomie

    политэконо́мияpolitɛkonómija, полити́ческая эконо́мияpolitíčeskaja ekonómija

  2. (archaic, uncountable)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”).

    the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Changes of leadership have a great effect on the international political economy.

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science:

Forms

plural: political economies

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management:economicseconomic science

Word family

2 related words

See also

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