TY - BOOK AU - WEINGAST Barry R AU - WITTMAN Donald A TI - The Oxford handbook of political economy SN - 9780199548477 (pbk) : PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Oxford Unv. Press KW - POLITICS KW - ECONOMIC ASPECTS KW - ECONOMICS KW - POLITICAL ASPECTS N2 - With more than 60 international contributors this handbook views '... political economy as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behaviour and institutions'. The scope is wide ranging through the electoral system and legislature to constitutional theory, social choice, public finances, macroeconomics, capitalism, international relations and war, and concluding with methodological issues and future prospects ER -