When many authors set out to write about political economy, they first finish writing the book and then find charts that illustrate their points. But NYU business-school professor and popular ...

If we look back to philosophers such as Adam Smith and Karl Marx, discussions of political economy were deeply intertwined with questions of morality. More recently, these fields have started to ...

Reinert, Sophus A. Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. (Received the 2012 Joseph J. Spengler Prize for the best book in ...

Reinert, Sophus A. The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.

A Marxist political economy approach, based on the insights of classic Marxist theorists into agricultural technologies in alternative institutional contexts, is developed to look beyond the two sides ...