“Political Economy”, the winning book of  Sami Al-Droubi Award for Translation issued in a new edition

Damascus (ST): The book (Political Economy: A Comparative Approach), which won the Sami Al-Droubi Award for Translation for the year 2020, written by Barry Clark and translated by Adnan Hassan, presents the subject of political economy as a self-contained science that links politics with economics.

The book is an important reference for every interested researcher or student of political economy because of the different information and opinions it contains, and the intensification of effort, presentation and analysis. The book studies the origins, history and development of science, its founders, schools and doctrines.

The book focuses on four main perspectives: the liberal, classical, conservative, and modern liberal perspectives, providing a brief history of each perspective, its most important basic ideas, and its most famous founders.

The writer addresses the positions of these political economic doctrines on contemporary controversial issues, namely governance, the market, inflation, unemployment, poverty, inequality, work, industry, minorities, discrimination, gender, education, culture, pollution, the environment, international trade, science and ideology.

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