Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy written by Barry R. Weingast and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over its lifetime, 'political economy' has had different meanings. This handbook views political economy as a synthesis of the various strands of social science, treating it as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behaviour and institutions.