"'Political economy' once was, and should still be, the name for the academic study of economics. To study economics is to study how the production and exchange of goods and services, domestically and among nations, is shaped by customs, mores, laws, and governments, and by social aspirations concerning equity."
- George Will
Putin's coming back as Russian president It's practically a foregone conclusion, after the dominant political party appears to have decided that he and current president Medvedev ought to switch places (again) over the next six months or so