Contributors to this forum are invited to write from their own disciplinary
on exciting intellectual developments in their eld and to assess theirimplications for contemporary political economy. They should also address how far political economy is (or should become) an interdisciplinar y venture. We find it hard to answer these questions, however, because neither co-author identi es with a single discipline. Indeed, we reject the discursive and organisational construction (and, worse, the fetishisation ) of disciplinary boundaries. More