As someone who is in the International Political Economy subfield of International Relations, I have always found it a rather large omission by Zizek to argue that we need to think politics and economics together. I think Political Science is so compartmentalized especially in North America, that there is no recognition of the critical, Marxist and post-structuralist work being done in Political Economy outside the United States and Canada. Our stream is heavily indebted to British scholarship on this, and increasingly non-North American scholarship relies on this tradition to develop conceptualizations of politics and economics. As someone who is in Seoul right now doing work on contemporary anti-capitalism, it is remarkable how many activists/scholars are debating Zizek, Agamben, Deluze and Derrida while organizing against the current FTA with the United States. My own work is an effort to develop the political economy of these efforts within a framework that sees 'Capital' itself as the most real fiction of the belief in the separation of politics and economics. Understanding capital as a social relation means that to assume politics and economics are separate already concedes far too much. Economics is a poor a social science (if not much more so) as anything done in political research – they just are much better at hiding it. - See more at: http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/2006/10/i_was_reading_t.html#sthash.pVI2x55o.dpuf