political economy

Other forms: political economies

Definitions of political economy

1. noun

   the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management
   synonyms: economic science, economics

   types:

   econometrics

   the application of mathematics and statistics to the study of economic and financial data

   finance

   the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets

   macroeconomics

   the branch of economics that studies the overall working of a national economy

   microeconomics

   the branch of economics that studies the economy of consumers or households or individual firms

   supply-side economics

   the school of economic theory that stresses the costs of production as a means of stimulating the economy; advocates policies that raise capital and labor output by increasing the incentive to produce

   type of:

   social science

   the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society