Further Antedating of "Political Economy"

[Fred Shapiro]

political economy (OED 1767)

1704 James Whiston _England's State-distempers_ 3 (Eighteenth Century
Collections Online)  Not one Revolution that happened in the Jewish
Political Oeconomy but what was for the Punishment of their Crimes.

Fred Shapiro


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