"The object of political economy research is typically macro-level description and/or explanation of material practices. The subject of this research knows no boundaries, as long as the analysis develops the subject's reciprocal linkages to related subjects and fields of inquiry. Social relations are located within the context of the economic, political, and ideological/cultural dimensions on the one hand and within the dimensions of time and space on the other."
The New Canadian Political Economy, edited by Wallace Clement and Glen Williams, (Montreal, QC, CAN: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989), p.21-22.