The birth of political economy as a discipline

As a discipline, economy and politics are brought by it’s own disciple in separate way. Both of the subject grown with their own preposition and theories. We might say, economy politics science is a new discipline, or an old discipline. Since the era of Greek thoughts, many science master have learn about the relation between economy and politics. Both were related one to another, if politics taken as the struggle of someone to force something as they want it, then economy can be taken as a motif , why someone force something to another person. Therefore, as the red line, economy politics can be simply taken as an action of someone whose pursuing their interest by forcing another person to do as they told.

Well, it’s not that simple actually, the world have brought us many expert/masters in economy politics science. We know Aristotle, later in 18th century, we would also know Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Maynard Keynes, J.S. Mill, Thomas Malthus, et cetera. They brought the world enlightenments era.

Knowledge grown as time passing by. Knowledge as a tree also grown their branch. We know an idiom, “You think, so you exist”. Experts from all over the worlds gain the pain that they had suffered. They think, then they build theories, other experts sometimes ‘help’ building it. Supporting their preposition, generalization, and theories. But, sometimes other experts also gone in opposite ways, they doubt the settled theories, proof it, and then a new theories born. It’s a natural way of life, also a natural way of building perceptions. When people agree with some theories, then they’ve build their own perspectives.

In economy politics, we know branch like, Liberal (classic), Socialism (Marxism), Neoclassic, Radicalism (Structuralism and Dependency), Institutionalism, Neoliberal, Keynesian, Globalism. Those branch of study were solid and valid as a theory. It has proven itself by case study, and generalizations. Those branch was build by those experts i have mentioned before. Todays writing wouldn’t explained them all. I’ll explain it one by one. Promise. I’ll update it, and keep this page as a sticky link.

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adityasani

p.s. : Thanks to Mr. Nur Rahmat Yuliantoro for correcting the title.