Part 1 Introductory: political economy - contending perspectives on a changing world, R.J.Barry Jones. Part 2 Perspectives on political economy: liberal political economy, R.J.Barry Jones; Marxist political economy, Andrew Gamble; the political economy of industrial policy, Wyn Grant; the political economy of economic policy, David McKay. Part 3 Perspectives on international political economy: liberal international political economy, Roger Tooze; Marxist approaches to international political economy, Chris Brown; economic realism, neo-Ricardian structuralism and the political economy of contemporary neo-mercantilism, R.J.Barry Jones.