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Article: Encyclopedia of Political Economy.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Economic Issues
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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edited by Phillip Anthony O'Hara. London and New York: Routledge, 1999 (reprinted 2001). Paper, ISBN: 0-415-24188-X, 50 [pounds sterling]. Two volumes, 1302 pages.
The publication of this encyclopedia underscores the extent to which political economy has come of age. I am here, of course, referring to the kind of political economy that emerged in the 1960s with the founding of the Association for Evolutionary Economics and the Union for Radical Political Economics, and not to the public choice version, or to the version that contemporary political scientists seem to have in mind (as in international political economy). To some extent, the political economy that ...