The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy

Bys: Weingast, Barry R. and Wittman, Donald A.

Book Overview

Over its long lifetime, "political economy" has had many different meanings: 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; the study of the inter-relationship between economics and politics for some twentieth-century commentators; and for others, a methodology emphasizing individual rationality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199272220
• ISBN13: 9780199272228
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 1112 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 9.9" x 6.6"