How to Use political economy in a Sentence

political economy

noun
  • And then there is the political economy risk.
    — Alaa Shahine Salha, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
  • What is true about political economy in general is true about health care.
    — Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, National Review, 11 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • And the political economy doesn’t help, as the 2018 law shows.
    — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Doing that isn’t so much an issue of pessimism or optimism but of political economy.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
  • An answer can be found in a quirky academic subfield known as the political economy of religion.
    — Anthony Gill, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The political economy, as usual, will have an outsized influence on the budget.
    — Rajrishi Singhal, Quartz, 26 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Peter Salisbury shows how the political economy of war has become entrenched in ways which will defy easy adaptation.
    — Marc Lynch, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The long arc on the political economy of investing in clean energy and climate security points upward.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Hanke noted to Fortune that even the French are amazed by the shift in America’s political economy.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The inevitable result is slower growth, less dynamism and a political economy driven by rent-seeking instead of entrepreneurship.
    — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The deeper reasons for Musk’s attraction to the Right lay in the realm of ideology rather than political economy.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • But preserving the rain forest, experts say, will actually require trends like these in order to change the region’s political economy.
    — Brian Barth, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Deregulated campaign finance has produced a political economy in which lawmakers and candidates spend much of their day fundraising.
    — Duncan Hosie, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2026
  • That is a spectacular build-out under any political economy, much less one focused on trade, defense, and economic uncertainty.
    — Phil De Luna, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The outcome of Newsom’s decision will tell us something about where the political economy of AI governance stands.
    — The Ai Insider, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2025
  • 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

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