The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199548471
• ISBN13: 9780199548477
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 1112 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"