@7db1d990 

Well, as a Professor of Political Economy I reject that characterisation! 

I think you are dealing with a category error: #TonyBlair is not a political economist... he's something else.

Political economy, may often differ from mainstream #economics, but that primarily because it rejects the lack of social context & history baked into a lot of economic theory.

Political economists have a pragmatic engagement with economics & to my mind the best economics *is* political economics! 

 @43d7c4ea Apologies. I should have put “political” in quote marks. I meant politicians who twist economics to their own agenda. Poor choice of words on my part. 

 @7db1d990 

No worries, I sort of thought (after I replied) that might be what was intended....