David L. Blaney is G. Theodore Mitau Professor of Political Science at Macalester College, USA. His research focuses on the colonial character of international relations and global political economy. His publications include (with Naeem Inayatullah) International Relations and the Problem of Difference (Routledge, 2004) and Savage Economics: Wealth, Poverty, and the Temporal Walls of Capitalism (Routledge, 2010). He is currently investigating how suffering is justified in the political economy tradition from Adam Smith to neoclassical economics and contemporary rationalist IPE.