Political Economy
Political economy is the study of production and trade and their relations with law, custom and government; and with the distribution of national income and wealth. As a discipline, political economy originated in moral philosophy, in the 18th century, to explore the administration of states' wealth, with "political" signifying the Greek word polity and "economy" signifying the Greek word "okonomie" (household management). The earliest works of political economy are usually attributed to the British scholars Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo, although they were preceded by the work of the French physiocrats, such as François Quesnay (1694–1774) and Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727–1781).
In the late 19th century, the term "economics" gradually began to replace the term "political economy" with the rise of mathematical modelling coinciding with the publication of an influential textbook by Alfred Marshall in 1890. Earlier, William Stanley Jevons, a proponent of mathematical methods applied to the subject, advocated economics for brevity and with the hope of the term becoming "the recognised name of a science". Citation measurement metrics from Google Ngram Viewer indicate that use of the term "economics" began to overshadow "political economy" around roughly 1910, becoming the preferred term for the discipline by 1920. Today, the term "economics" usually refers to the narrow study of the economy absent other political and social considerations while the term "political economy" represents a distinct and competing approach.
Political economy, where it is not used as a synonym for economics, may refer to very different things. From an academic standpoint, the term may reference Marxian economics, applied public choice approaches emanating from the Chicago school and the Virginia school. In common parlance, "political economy" may simply refer to the advice given by economists to the government or public on general economic policy or on specific economic proposals developed by political scientists. A rapidly growing mainstream literature from the 1970s has expanded beyond the model of economic policy in which planners maximize utility of a representative individual toward examining how political forces affect the choice of economic policies, especially as to distributional conflicts and political institutions. It is available as a stand-alone area of study in certain colleges and universities.
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Matching Political Economy Colleges
Georgetown University
Four or more years; Private not for profit; $51,720 average out-state tuition; $51,720 average in-state tuition |
University of Washington-Bothell Campus
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SUNY College at Old Westbury
Four or more years; Public; $16,320 average out-state tuition; $6,670 average in-state tuition |
Tulane University of Louisiana
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University of Southern California
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Hillsdale College
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Beloit College
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Scholarships for Political Economy Majors
Ohio LSC Legislative FellowshipOhio Legislative Service Commission |
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award $42,000 |
deadline Varies |
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Voyager ScholarshipObama Foundation |
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award Up to $25,000 |
deadline March 22, 2023 |
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Philip J. Norton, Jr. ScholarshipMartha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation |
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award $12,500 |
deadline March 15, 2023 |
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AB HBCU Scholars ProgramAllianceBernstein L.P. |
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award $5,000 |
deadline March 15, 2023 |
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Judge Beverly Reid O’Connell ScholarshipWomen Lawyers Association of Los Angeles |
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award Up to $5,000 |
deadline April 30, 2023 |
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Ruth Segal ScholarshipOut of Home Advertising Association of America, Inc. (OAAA) |
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award $5,000 |
deadline June 16, 2023 |
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ASU Meritage Homes ScholarshipArizona State University College of Engineering |
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award $2,500 |
deadline April 02, 2023 |
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National Dairy Promotion and Research Board Undergraduate ScholarshipDairy Management, Inc. |
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award $2,500 |
deadline May 12, 2023 |
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PixelPlex STEM ScholarshipPixelPlex |
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award $2,000 |
deadline June 05, 2023 |
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Ronald J. Starkweather Memorial ScholarshipMonroe Community College |
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award $1,500 |
deadline March 15, 2023 |
Political Economy Related Majors
- Political Science and Government
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- International Relations and Affairs
- Archeology
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- Geography
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- Cultural Anthropology
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- Urban Studies/Affairs
- Physical and Biological Anthropology
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