Scott G. Nelson is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. His most recent book (co-authored with Bradley S. Klein) is Citizenship After Trump: Democracy versus Authoritarianism in a Post-Pandemic Era (Routledge, 2022).Joel T. Shelton is Associate Professor of Political Science & Policy Studies at Elon University and Coordinator of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) program at Elon. He is the author of Conditionality and the Ambitions of Governance: Social Transformation in Southeastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and co-author of Research and Writing in International Relations, 3rd ed (Routledge, 2020).

• Chapter One: Introduction: Who and What Does “the Economy” Serve?.- Chapter Two: The Origins of Statecraft.- Chapter Three: The Public Purpose of Political Economy.- Chapter Four: National Economic Policy: History, Culture, and the Limits of Developmentalism.- Chapter Five: The Delicate Order of Liberalism.- Chapter Six: The Transgressive Economy.- Chapter Seven: Neoliberal Governmentality and the Promise of the Demotic Economy.- Conclusion: Political Economy as a Liberal Art.

Scott G. Nelson is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. His most recent book (co-authored with Bradley S. Klein) is Citizenship After Trump: Democracy versus Authoritarianism in a Post-Pandemic Era (Routledge, 2022).Joel T. Shelton is Associate Professor of Political Science & Policy Studies at Elon University and Coordinator of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) program at Elon. He is the author of Conditionality and the Ambitions of Governance: Social Transformation in Southeastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and co-author of Research and Writing in International Relations, 3rd ed (Routledge, 2020).

• Chapter One: Introduction: Who and What Does “the Economy” Serve?.- Chapter Two: The Origins of Statecraft.- Chapter Three: The Public Purpose of Political Economy.- Chapter Four: National Economic Policy: History, Culture, and the Limits of Developmentalism.- Chapter Five: The Delicate Order of Liberalism.- Chapter Six: The Transgressive Economy.- Chapter Seven: Neoliberal Governmentality and the Promise of the Demotic Economy.- Conclusion: Political Economy as a Liberal Art.

Scott G. Nelson is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. His most recent book (co-authored with Bradley S. Klein) is Citizenship After Trump: Democracy versus Authoritarianism in a Post-Pandemic Era (Routledge, 2022).Joel T. Shelton is Associate Professor of Political Science & Policy Studies at Elon University and Coordinator of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) program at Elon. He is the author of Conditionality and the Ambitions of Governance: Social Transformation in Southeastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and co-author of Research and Writing in International Relations, 3rd ed (Routledge, 2020).

• Chapter One: Introduction: Who and What Does “the Economy” Serve?.- Chapter Two: The Origins of Statecraft.- Chapter Three: The Public Purpose of Political Economy.- Chapter Four: National Economic Policy: History, Culture, and the Limits of Developmentalism.- Chapter Five: The Delicate Order of Liberalism.- Chapter Six: The Transgressive Economy.- Chapter Seven: Neoliberal Governmentality and the Promise of the Demotic Economy.- Conclusion: Political Economy as a Liberal Art.