num_pages: 1112
description: Over its long lifetime, "political economy" has had many different the science of managing the resources of a nation so as to provide wealth to its inhabitants for Adam Smith; the study of how the ownership of the means of production influenced historical processes for Marx; thestudy of the inter-relationship between economics and politics for some twentieth-century commentators; and for others, a methodology emphasizing individual rationality (the economic or "public choice" approach) or institutional adaptation (the sociological version). This Handbook views politicaleconomy as a grand (if imperfect) synthesis of these various strands, treating political economy as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behavior and institutions.This Handbook surveys the field of political economy, with fifty-eight chapters ranging from micro to macro, national to international, institutional to behavioral, methodological to substantive. Chapters on social choice, constitutional theory, and public economics are set alongside ones onvoters, parties and pressure groups, macroeconomics and politics, capitalism and democracy, and international political economy and international conflict.
language: English
title: The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy
titlecomplete: The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy (Oxford Handbooks)
genres: Politics, Political Science, Economics
ratings_count: 33
series: The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science
publisher: Oxford University Press