political economy

Questions about political economy

What does political economy mean?

political economy means "the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management".

What is another word for political economy?

Close synonyms include economics, economic science. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is political economy a common word?

political economy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.