It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society.
Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.
Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.
Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.
There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.