Political-economic

But, as Marx was later to remark, “the anatomy of civil society is political economy,” and thus a radical critique of human alienation required the development of a political-economic critique as well.

Political economy must begin with a recognition of the inherently conflictual nature of international relations. The nation is, as early mercantilists held, the key unit of political-economic analysis.

[…] it is necessary for political economists who wish to be similarly critical to be self-conscious of their method of theorizing as much as they are self-conscious of their political-economic theory and its concepts so that those concepts, and even the theory itself, do not become static but instead remain perpetually critical.