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political economies

political economies is the plural of political economy.

Meaning of political economy

Noun

political economy (countable and uncountable, plural political economies)

  1. Interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics, law, and political science in explaining how political institutions, the political environment, and the economic system—capitalist, socialist, mixed, etc.—influence each other.
    • Arguing for a limit on the power of money, [John Maynard Keynes] was faithful to a long tradition of political economy that was concerned with the balance of interests and the dangers of financial domination.2012 July 8, Maurice Glasman, “We need to talk about Keynes – and his Viagra economics”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    ergonomics
  2. (archaic, uncountable) Synonym of economics (“the study of resource and wealth allocation, consumption, and distribution, of capital and investment, and of management of the factors of production”).

Questions about political economies

What is political economies the plural of?
Political economies is the plural of political economy.

Words near political economies in the dictionary

  1. political correctness
  2. political correctnesses
  3. political corrector
  4. political correctors
  5. political crime
  6. political economies
  7. political economist
  8. political economists
  9. political economy
  10. political entities
  11. political entity

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