Global and International Studies Professor Paul Bowles recently attended a prestigious two-day academic workshop, Political Economy on Trial: Reflections After a Decade of Unforeseen Developments. This landmark ‘state of the field’ workshop was held at Sheffield Town Hall, England, and was an opportunity for political economy as a field to reflect on its own blind spots. Contributions from the workshop will be captured and shared in two simultaneously published special issues of Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) and New Political Economy (NPE). Professor Bowles is an Editorial Board Member of RIPE.