Further Antedating of "Political Economy"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:51:18PM -0500, Fred Shapiro wrote:
> 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.

Keep going, Fred, eventually you'll find the a1687 example in EEBO....

JTS