McGraw-Hill OnlineMcGraw-Hill Higher EducationLearning Center
Student View | Instructor View | information Center | Home
News Sources
Chapter Overview
Chapter Outline
True or False
Web Links
Feedback
Help Center


Power & Choice, 8/e
W. Phillips Shively, University of Minnesota---Minneapolis

Political Economy of the State

Chapter Outline


I. Political economy

  1. As a political subfield-- how the state and the economy interact
    1. economic developments and the development of the state
    2. methods of economics and political science questions (assumption of rationality)

II. Economic Policy I: Economic growth

  1. rents and rent seeking
  2. import substitution industrialization
  3. the South Korean experience

III. Economic Policy II: Controlling inflation and unemployment

  1. inflation
  2. unemployment

IV. Economic Policy III: Managing distribution to address inequality

V. Independent central banks

VI. Corruption

VII. Conclusion

  1. Example: German political economy
  2. Example: Indonesian political economy