RICCARDO BELLOFIORE is Professor of Economics at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He has authored a book on the Italian Marxist scholar Claudio Napoleoni, and edited a collection on Piero Sraffa - both in Italian. In English, he edited "The Constitution of Capital; Marxian Economics: A Reappraisal" and "Global Money, Capital Restructuring and the Changing Patterns of Labour" with Mario Baldassarri. He has acted as guest editor of a special issue of the "International Journal of Political Economy" on 'Marxian Theory: The Italian Debate' and a special issue of the "Rivista di Politica Economica...