HES: RE: QUERY--Economics vs. Political Economy

[Yuri Tulupenko]

   For "economics", the earliest in Google Books:

  Salomon's divine arts, of 1. ethickes, 2. politickes, 3.
oeconomics: that is; the gouernment of 1. Behaviovr, 2. Commonwealth,
3. familie. Drawn into method, out of his prouerbs & Ecclesiastes.
With an open and plaine paraphrase, vpon the Song of Songs. By Joseph
Hall.  Printed by H.L. for Eleazar Edgar, and Samuel Macham, London,
1609.

  Yuri Tulupenko