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...

This article explores Douglass North’s intellectual development as a political economist and an interdisciplinary researcher. Although he was an important figure during the cliometrics revolution, he later grew dissatisfied with the approach and went on to study institutions, helping to...