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Political economy was the original term for the study of production, the acts of buying and selling, and their relationships to laws, customs and government. It developed in the 18th century as the study of the economies of states (also known as polities, hence the word "political" in "political economy"). In contradistinction to the theory of the Physiocrats, in which land was seen as the source of all wealth, some political economists proposed the labour theory of value (first introduced by John Locke, developed by Adam Smith and later Karl Marx), according to which labour is the real source of value. Many political economists also attracted attention to the accelerating development of technology, whose role in economic and social relationships grew ever more important.
In the late 19th century, the term "political economy" was generally superseded by the term economics, which was used by those seeking to place the study of economy on a mathematical and axiomatic basis, rather than studying the structural relationships within production and consumption. (See marginalism, Alfred Marshall)
In the present, political economy refers to a variety of different, but related, approaches to studying economic and political behavior, which range from combining economics with other fields, to using different fundamental assumptions which challenge those of orthodox economics:
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RESOURCES ARE SCARCE. It's the first Law of Economics. Resources are scarce, and we are squandering them on the infamous POLITICAL PROCESS.
mindofmo (ImplausibleEndeavors) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:12:16 -0000
RESOURCES ARE SCARCE. It's the first Law of Economics. Resources are scarce, and we are squandering them on the infamous POLITICAL PROCESS.
[resources] Public Lectures and Events | London School of Economics and Political Science http://bit.ly/8y3Rl
yamasas (yamasas) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:27:35 -0000
[resources] Public Lectures and Events | London School of Economics and Political Science http://bit.ly/8y3Rl
EE401 Political Economics also clashes with Statistics. I suppose they don't expect political economists to take stats.
chayanin (Chayanin Wipusanawan) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:32:49 -0000
EE401 Political Economics also clashes with Statistics. I suppose they don't expect political economists to take stats.
More political/economics math: "only half of humanity will be having only enough children to replace itself"
pepepacha (Glenn Kenyon) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:23:18 -0000
More political/economics math: "only half of humanity will be having only enough children to replace itself"
@Allamon Hasan Pain cartoon is good, but I am nominating the Headless Horseman for a Nobel in economics, Political Economy division. #tcot
libertyrant (libertyrant) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:31:28 -0000
@Allamon Hasan Pain cartoon is good, but I am nominating the Headless Horseman for a Nobel in economics, Political Economy division. #tcot
Public Health Specialist I (Anchorage, AK) - anthropology, economics, sociology, history, political science, geogra... http://ow.ly/15ZT3i
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A Glossary of Political Economy Terms - Hypertext dictionary of extensive definitions of around 200 political economic terms, by Dr. Paul M. Johnson of Auburn University.
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Debunking Economics - Book web site provides more detail on some issues, as well as the maths behind some of the critiques.
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