How to Use political economy in a Sentence

political economy

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  • And the political economy doesn’t help, as the 2018 law shows.
    — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2023
  • In the sphere of the political economy, Xu wrote, two schools of thought broadly take precedence.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 2 Sep. 2020
  • The result is a political economy that benefits the old at the expense of the young.
    — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The value of a high-end pocketbook and the political economy concludes that the Porsche Taycan is one heck of a ride!
    — Selika Josiah Talbott, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Of course there’s a political economy of white nationalism and of the emergence of the extreme right.
    — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The advocates for a more expansive MMT return again and again to the danger of zero-sum political economy as a dead-end for the left.
    — Alex Yablon, The New Republic, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Senator, what is your thinking about this change in economics and change in the political economy over the past decade?
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Catch up: Lebanon’s refuse crisis says a lot about its political economy.
    — Mike Ives, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Hanke noted to Fortune that even the French are amazed by the shift in America’s political economy.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • James gives a variety of prominent concepts in political economy the same treatment in The War of Words.
    — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022
  • What is true about political economy in general is true about health care.
    — Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, National Review, 11 Oct. 2017
  • At some level, the sudden spike in chatter about antitrust seemed driven more by the need to fill a public relations void than by a sudden epiphany about the political economy.
    — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 16 Sep. 2017
  • As Robinson saw it, the roots of the Sellafield crisis lay in failures of political economy and moral reasoning which went back to the sixteenth century and the beginnings of the Poor Laws.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2020
  • But the book admirably blends the many facets of the post-1960s petrodollar universe, from geopolitics to political economy, diplomacy to culture.
    — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The immediate response of the state to protests signals that a change to the political economy of the existing social contract between state and society could be on the horizon.
    — Allison Spencer Hartnett, Washington Post, 13 June 2018
  • An answer can be found in a quirky academic subfield known as the political economy of religion.
    — Anthony Gill, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Yet this type of policy isn’t meant to reflect the present-day market so much as influence the country’s future political economy.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2021
  • The problem is that that narrative hasn’t yet become much more widespread: this idea of the political economy of innovation.
    — Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz Africa, 4 Sep. 2019
  • This means that the political economy will remain largely unchanged even if Evergrande is allowed to fail.
    — John Lee, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Adam Smith, the sage of classical political economy, was as keen observer of businesses as any.
    — Tilak Doshi, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The political economy, as usual, will have an outsized influence on the budget.
    — Rajrishi Singhal, Quartz, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Doing that isn’t so much an issue of pessimism or optimism but of political economy.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
  • But that prospect depends on the currents moving in deepest layer, great China itself, where the wheels of political economy are grinding now in unpredictable ways.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The real debate, as Williamson goes on to suggest, concerns the structure, balance, and integration of the elements that make up our political economy.
    — Will Wilkinson, Vox, 16 Aug. 2018
  • As the bracing narrative of The Anti-Oligarchy Court makes clear, the struggle for a just and durable republican political economy has set an abundance of worthy precedents.
    — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The way to reclaim our lethally unequal political economy, Stewart suggests, is to look to the principles of the nation’s democratic founding.
    — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 30 Sep. 2021
  • MBS’s changes have done little to alter the kingdom’s political economy, although it is being reshaped, to a degree, through Vision 2030 reforms.
    — Daniel Benjamin, The New York Review of Books, 30 May 2019
  • But climate hawks should be designing their policies around the real political economy, in which multiple goals and strategies must be pursued at once.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 22 June 2018
  • The political economy of new mobility, the value of the voice of those working in the industry who can create public pressure can and must eradicate this deplorable conduct.
    — Selika Josiah Talbott, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • But we will be burned badly if the effect of his campaign is to allow Never Trump assumptions about foreign policy and political economy to set the terms of future policy.
    — Samuel Moyn, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2020

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