Rethinking Politics, Scholarship, and Economics

to participate in the Spring Seminar and Lecture Series on Globalization sponsored by the UK Committee on Social Theory.His lecture entitled "Globalization and Imperialism" explored the intellectual and material foundations of globalization discourses.In particular, he challenged the "depressing inevitability" of these discourses by connecting their production to pecific intellectua ls and policy maker and by re-envi ioning them through the Marxian concepts of imperia lism and the " imperial machine."Consistently defying dominant notions of what an economist should be and hould study Ruccio ha investigated a multitude of topics that ca n be broadly gathered under the category of radical political economy.While hi earl ier writings focused intensely upon the economics of development and underdevelopment, Ruccio has more recently pur ued que ti on of value, subjectivity, and the changing dynamics of class in economic sy terns raised by postmoderni m and po t tructuralism.He has also written about the production of economic knowledge both within the field of economic and in it variation aero other discipline .In addition, he continue to be a key figure in the ongoing project to reconceptualize the Marxian tradition and currently edit the Pangaea