Syllabus: Political Economy (Anth/Soc 617) (original) (raw)
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Political economy, branch of social science that studies the relationships between individuals and society and between markets and the state, using a diverse set of tools and methods drawn largely from economies, political science, and sociology. The term political economy is derived from the Greek word polis, meaning "city" or "state," and oikonomos, meaning "one who manages a household or estate." Political economy thus can be understood as the study of how a country-the public's household-is managed or governed, taking into account both political and economic factors. Finally we can say that Political economy is a term used for studying production and trade, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth.
PSCI 300 Political Economy Foundations
Course Description: Political economy dates back to the works of influential thinkers from the XVII and the XIX centuries that were concerned with the workings of the capitalist system. Often, they were broadly considered philosophers or political economists. Today, political economy is recognized as a multidisciplinary endeavour that deals with issues of wealth and power; hence it is at the intersections of politics, economics and other disciplines such as international relations, sociology, geography, and ecology among others. This course surveys some of the classical texts that have informed the emergence of political economy thought as well as other disciplines in the social sciences. It also incorporates contemporary discussions that have spurred ground--breaking debates in the field, such as feminist political economy and political ecology.
On the definition of Political Economy
The Pillars of Philosophy of Economic Behavior, 2019
In an 1831 letter to the Scottish author John Sterling (1806-1844), John Stuart Mill told him that he was «working out» in political economy, aiming to clear up some points that he thought were dubious and correcting others he considered wrong, “to shew what the science is & how it should be studied.”[1] Mill was concerned with principles. “I am here much more in my element: the only thing that I believe I am really fit for, is the investigation of abstract truth, and the more abstract the better. If there is any science which I am capable of promoting, I think it is the science of science itself, the science of investigation – of method.”[2] For him, there were many differences between the methods that were used at the time and it was necessary to shed light on this issue in order to find a method that expressed political economy as a science. “For Mill, a scientific approach meant the simplicity he found in Newtonian science, that is, the explanation of a mass of facts and details by organizing principle.”[3] The motivation for what Mill stood for resulted in his essay On the Definition of Political Economy, which had the goal of defining scope, laws and methods in order to place political economy in the realm of science. The text belongs to the first part of my book “The Philosophy of Economic Behavior”. Personal website: https://nararela.com/ [1] MILL, J., «Letters», Collected Works, Vol. XII, 78-79. [1] IBID. [1] REDMAN, D.,(1997). The Rise of Political Economy, MIT Press, 322.
New approaches to political economy
Socio-Economic Review, 2019
The discussion on ‘New Approaches to Political Economy (PE)’ gives us a state-of-the-art overview of the main theoretical and conceptual developments within the concept of political economy. Thereby, it invites us to broaden our knowledge regarding manifold novel approaches, which make use of more complex methods to study the less stable, less predictable, but faster changing realities of smaller or bigger geographical regions. In this discussion forum, Amable takes a closer look on the nature of ‘conflict’ as well as the relationship between conflict and institutional change or stability. After stressing the relevance of comparative capitalism in general, Regan also zooms in on the political conflicts in comparative political economy from three different perspectives (electoral politics, organized interest groups and business-state elites), where he finds new avenues, tensions and research agendas are opening up. From a different perspective, Avdagic reviews the broad developments ...
Contemporary Political Economy: Common and Contested Terrain
Economic Record, 1988
This paper analyzes the nature of contemporary politicaI economy. The attempt to distinguish political economy ftom orthodox economics according to the role played by value-judgements or policy prt?smptions b rejected as mislmding. Imtead the principl concern of political economy are identified by reference to six contributory currents of thought, ranging from the critique of neoclasskal economics and the reconstruction of Keynesian economics, through the development of Marxist and institutional anaIyses, to the influence of feminism and environmentalism. The paper concludes with some comments on the place of political economy in the university curriculum. ' mere is a difference between the earlier version of the paper which G r y prewnt& to the conference of the Economic soclay of Australia and New Zealand in 198S, and that published in the Economic R m r d. The latter is more circumspm in noting that 'there is no historical justification to argue for distina meanings of political economy and aPnomia. by amciathg the &rrc with value-free science on the lines on Robbid (1932, italics added). This, of course, reopens the point of this current paper. ' My thanks to Riclurd Bryan. &van Butla.
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