political-economic

adjective

Of, pertaining to, or influenced by political economy.

Meanings

adjectivepolitical-economic (comparative more political-economic, superlative most political-economic)

comparative more political-economic · superlative most political-economic

  1. Of, pertaining to, or influenced by political economy.

    Political economy must begin with a recognition of the inherently conflictual nature of international relations. The nation is, as early mercantilists held, the key unit of political-economic analysis.

    1997, “Classical Mercantilism”, in George T. Crane, Abla Amawi, editors, The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy: A Reader, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 36
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    But, as Marx was later to remark, “the anatomy of civil society is political economy,” and thus a radical critique of human alienation required the development of a political-economic critique as well.

    1979, Stephen K. Levine, “Marxist Anthropology and the Critique of Everyday Life”, in Stanley Diamond, editor, Toward a Marxist Anthropology: Problems and Perspectives, →ISBN, page 13

    […] it is necessary for political economists who wish to be similarly critical to be self-conscious of their method of theorizing as much as they are self-conscious of their political-economic theory and its concepts so that those concepts, and even the theory itself, do not become static but instead remain perpetually critical.

    2016, Brice Nixon, “Critical Political Economy of Communication and the Problem of Method”, in Christian Fuchs, Vincent Mosco, editors, Marx and the Political Economy of the Media, →ISBN, page 262
  2. sum of partsPolitical and economic.

    Synonyms: politico-economic

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivePolitical and economic.

Origin

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