Associate Professor of Political Economy | Director Political Economy Lab | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Today, Noam Maggor concludes our symposium on @JasonBJackson's *Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry.*
Although rooted in Indian history, he argues, the book’s thoroughly global-comparative mode of analysis allows it to resonate far beyond South Asia.
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Week in review: Seven of our favorite labor scholars on a pro-labor vision of the Constitution, @jeenashahesq on Trump’s contradictory treatment of Hernández and Maduro, & @NMaggor on how “good” and “bad” capitalists are not born but made.
Plus, new CFPs, talks, and rankings!
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Today, Aditya Balasubramanian continues our symposium on @JasonBJackson's *Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry.*
Given that Indian firms spend virtually nothing on R&D, he asks, how we should understand the modernity of so-called “modern Indian capitalists”?
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Today, @veenadubal and @AzizaAhmed discuss the feminist lawyers and activists who transformed the law and science of AIDS, the CDC’s willful ignorance around the disease’s reach, and the adverse public health consequences of carceral feminism.
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Watch the latest @SouthAsiaBrown Book Adda with @JasonBJackson on Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry, exploring how Indian and foreign business leaders shaped foreign investment policy through questions of capitalist legitimacy. (VIDEO)
youtube.com/watch?v=OtNR1KT2…
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Sven Beckert argues that market and state expansion have run parallel for 500 years. For him, the idea that they are opposing forces is historically inaccurate; the state is a co-producer of capitalism.
Full episode of the EPH Podcast with Sven: youtu.be/wn-7JQBwTDg
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Today, Amy Cohen continues our symposium on @JasonBJackson's *Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry,* considering what his framework might tell us about the recent return of patrimonial capitalism in the United States.
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Today, @JasonBJackson kicks off a symposium on his new book, *Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India.*
Economic policymaking, he argues, is best seen as a state-led project of moral ordering of capital.
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How do nations outside the US decide to regulate US tech & investment? @JasonBJackson new book helped me to understand how policymakers in India find certain titans “legitimate.”
Incredible work.
lpeproject.org/blog/moral-or…
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New working paper with Rainer Kattel: Market-Shaping States.
Governments face a paradox—they need stability to sustain direction over time, yet agility to adapt when conditions change. These aren't opposing forces. They're complementary capabilities that must work together.
We present a framework showing how structural capacities, organisational routines and dynamic capabilities interact to create public value. Strong strategy without learning leads to rigidity. Strong delivery without direction leads to fragmentation.
Read the paper ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publicati…
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**CALL FOR PAPERS**
LSE–NYU Conference 2026
Making States Work: Capacity, Accountability and Economic Foundations
🗓 Deadline: 6 March
More details and how to submit your paper 🔽 sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/event…
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Why did India welcome some capital—and rejected other forms?
🎙️ New episode of the EPH Podcast with @JasonBJackson
A conversation on:
• “Good” vs “bad” capital
• Coca-Cola, nationalism & legitimacy
• Why capitalism is a moral system
▶️ YouTube: youtu.be/OEL_Is_8ITw?si=IgZ6…
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Deadline for paper/panel submission for the 1st ever @isanet conference in South Asia has been extended (March 2)! And we are working on resolving the technical problems with submission asap. More on the conference 👇
Happy to announce the 1st ever ISA conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc isanet.org/Conferences/SAWP-…
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Finally started reading this: so brilliantly written, clear and lucid, and accessible to folks like me who aren’t familiar with the grammar/vocabulary of these debates.
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Thank you, Ralph Nader, for this conversation on Capitalism: A Global History.
The History of Capitalism open.substack.com/pub/ralphn…
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New Rhodes Center Podcast is up. Sven Beckert talks his new book - Capitalism: A Global History - with Seth Rockman: player.captivate.fm/episode/…
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The Dig you have been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes a fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI thedigradio.com/podcast/sili…
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Doctoral Fellowships (10 Months) in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2026-27, Orient-Institut Beirut
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