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Wecome to the weblog of the brand new PSA specialist group on Political Economy. If you would like to join the group (there is at present no membership fee), then please go here to download the membership form.

This group will operate with a broad and inclusive understanding of political economy. The basic premise of any work labelled political economy is that the political and the economic are not discrete domains, but part of an interconnected whole. Politics and economics are thus inseparable analytically. Within this overarching definition, there is of course considerable space for theoretical debate and empirical specialisation. This diversity means that political economy work may be theoretical or empirical, historical or contemporary, international or comparative. Work conducted under the political economy banner is undertaken from a variety of theoretical perspectives and proceeds from a variety of methodological premises. Indeed, while some of the world’s primary political economists work under the banner of political science, many do not. As such political economy has the potential to act as an important interdisciplinary hosting metaphor.