In this paper, I aim to discuss New Political Economy as a label for the economic analysis of politics, in the English language. The term ‘political economy’ itself, although it has ceased to be the preferred term by which economists refer to their discipline, it is still being used by a...

In this paper I aim to try defining New Political Economy (NEP) as the economic study of politics, with a macroeconomic focus. It emerged from the influences mainly from the criticism of theory of economic policy, political business cycle research, public choice theory and new institutional...