Jason Jackson
@jasonbjackson.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Economy || Director, Political Economy Lab || Department of Urban Studies and Planning || MIT jasonjackson.net
Very honored that my book "Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry," is a shortlisted finalist for the @asanews.bsky.social Political Sociology Section's Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award! And it is currently 25% off on the @harvardpress.bsky.social website! See info below:
Looking forward to our New Books in South Asian Legal Studies panel @lawandsociety.bsky.social in San Francisco this Saturday, 12.45pm+! Each author speaks about another book & our own, incl. @jasonbjackson.bsky.social @anandvaidya.bsky.social. CRN22 South Asia business meeting is right before (1/2)
Really looking forward to our joint AMR at @lawandsociety.bsky.social ociety.bsky.social tomorrow with so many amazing scholars. Please come! @jiseonsong.bsky.social @libbyadler.bsky.social Jamelia Morgan @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social @swethaa.bsky.social and Kathy Abrams #LSA2026
Earlier this week, the University of Chicago announced a new minor in Law and Political Economy. Yes, really. And, yes, the good kind of political economy!
UChicago Launches Interdisciplinary Economics Major Specialization, Law and Political Economy Minor
Beginning in the fall, undergraduates can pursue a new economics specialization in politics and policy and a new minor in law and political economy.
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New Englanders! @quinnslobodian.com and I have a couple of events coming up next week for our new book Muskism. Wed, April 22, 7pm, at Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, with @jasonbjackson.bsky.social Thurs, April 23, 7pm, at Riffraff Bookstore in Providence, with @madisoncondon.bsky.social
Looking forward to this Zoom discussion of my @harvardpress.bsky.social book “Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry” hosted by the Law and Political Economy Collective this Friday (4/10) at 3pm ET. Join us! www.politicaleconomylaw.org/content.aspx...
I'm in The Blog today on the turmoil in higher education finance. 🧵 The Trump Admin is simultaneously trying to get things back to normal (pre-COVID status quo, but more punitive) and to dismantle the whole system (selling off the portfolio, closing Dept of Ed) lpeproject.org/blog/the-stu...
The Student Loan Conjuncture
While student loan repayment has resumed, stability is an illusion. Beneath the surface, mounting delinquency, administrative chaos, and the potential dismantling of federal loan management point to a...
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Can’t wait for @jasonbjackson.bsky.social book launch Wednesday - register here calendar.mit.edu/event/jason-...
📆 Weds. 4/1 @ 7PM: We join the CBMHRJ in welcoming Khiara M. Bridges in store for a discussion of her new book, "Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans", in conversation with Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha. Learn more: buff.ly/UZkFWQO
Today, Noam Maggor (@maggor.bsky.social) concludes our symposium on @jasonbjackson.bsky.social'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.
The Politics of Capitalist Legitimacy
At the core of Jason Jackson's Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry is a longstanding conversation among Indian modernizers about how to identify and nurture the ‘right’ kind of capitalists.
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Today, @jeenashahesq.bsky.social argues that Trump’s contradictory treatment of Hernández and Maduro reveals the consistency of U.S. foreign policy: the War on Drugs serves as a flexible tool for maintaining global capitalism’s necessary periphery.
Trump’s Pardons and Kidnappings: The Imperial Logic of the War on Drugs
Weeks after pardoning former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández for drug trafficking, Donald Trump ordered U.S. forces to seize Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on the same charges.
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Today, @abalasub.bsky.social continues our symposium on *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”?
Modern(izing) Indian Capital?
Jason Jackson’s erudite Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry shows that, for more than a century, Indian firms labeled as “traditional” capital faced policy hostility…
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Commenting on Timothy Mitchell’s new book on Thursday with Chris Desan at Harvard. Register here to join: sts.hks.harvard.edu/events/lectu...
Thank you to the most brilliant @veenadubal.bsky.social for being my conversation partner about my book on the @lpeblog.bsky.social and to the masterful @jamesbrandt.bsky.social for his support. lpeproject.org/blog/how-fem... @bulaw.bsky.social
How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS
Veena Dubal interviews Aziza Ahmed about the exclusion of women from early AIDS definitions, the feminist lawyers and activists who transformed the government's response to the epidemic…
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Today, @veenadubal.bsky.social and @azizaahmed.bsky.social discuss the feminist lawyers and activists who secured recognition of the AIDS epidemic’s impact on women, the CDC’s willful ignorance around the disease’s reach, and the adverse public health consequences of carceral feminism.
How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS
Veena Dubal interviews Aziza Ahmed about the exclusion of women from early AIDS definitions, the feminist lawyers and activists who transformed the government's response to the epidemic…
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Really appreciate Amy Cohen’s response to my book, esp the connection to Melinda Cooper’s “patrimonial capitalism’s,” moralized distinction btwn firms that are privately held or founder-controlled thru complex legal structures (eg tech) & the publicly traded corporation of managerial capitalism.
LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · 5mo agoToday, Amy Cohen continues our symposium on @jasonbjackson.bsky.social'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.
Very honored to see a review of my book in @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social ! www.thelancet.com/authored-by/...
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This is in 90 minutes. Apparently there are 400 (?!) people signed up meaning we have a few spots left till we hit the limit... 👇👇👇
Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · 5mo agoIn Equator's first free Zoom event Melinda Cooper and Quinn Slobodian discuss the revelations of the Epstein files, and what they tell us about the obsessions of America's elites. Time: Thursday, 26 February, 7 PM ET / Friday, 27 February, 11 AM AEST Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/epstein-fa...
Still available for law reviews! Otherwise going to have to rework it for a peer reviewed sociology journal or something.
Luke Herrine@lookheron.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe first draft of my effort to theorize the political/coalitional characteristics of student debt is out for review. It's really the first step in an effort to think through how to design a free college program with durable long-term coalitions
In conversation with @laprofelgp.bsky.social and Chandra Mohanty, Labyrinth Book Store, Princeton NJ March 26th @ 6 PM
"What looms now on the horizon is perhaps a post-moral turn that no longer asks its privileged market actors to represent their interests as about advancing a shared future."
LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · 5mo agoToday, Amy Cohen continues our symposium on @jasonbjackson.bsky.social'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.
Today, Amy Cohen continues our symposium on @jasonbjackson.bsky.social'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.
Capital Without Moral Cover?
Jason Jackson's Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry argues that capitalist societies develop a moral hierarchy of market actors, enabling certain firms to position their interests as good…
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How are policymakers outside the US thinking about US tech firms?? @jasonbjackson.bsky.social's FASCINATING new book helped me to understand the kinds of moral schemas that post-colonial nations are using to shape foreign investment policy. lpeproject.org/blog/moral-o...
Moral Orders of Capitalist Legitimacy
In today’s seemingly deglobalizing economy, policymakers across the world are in a quandary over how to regulate foreign firms. Should policymakers prevent foreign firms from attaining dominant market...
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Check out the @lpeblog.bsky.social symposium on @jasonbjackson.bsky.social ‘s new book lpeproject.org/blog/moral-o...
Moral Orders of Capitalist Legitimacy
In today’s seemingly deglobalizing economy, policymakers across the world are in a quandary over how to regulate foreign firms. Should policymakers prevent foreign firms from attaining dominant market...
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Jason Jackson@jasonbjackson.bsky.social · 8mo agoI’m happy to share that my book “Traders, Speculators and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India,” published by @harvardpress.bsky.social is out!
Really honored to have my new @harvardpress.bsky.social book be part of an @lpeblog.bsky.social symposium! I am deeply grateful to @lpeproject.bsky.social colleagues for the opportunity, and to my respondents @maggor.bsky.social, @abalasub.bsky.social & Amy Cohen for engaging with my work. 🙏
LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · 5mo agoToday, @jasonbjackson.bsky.social 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 understood as a state-led project of moral ordering of capital.
Today, @jasonbjackson.bsky.social 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 understood as a state-led project of moral ordering of capital.
Moral Orders of Capitalist Legitimacy
In today’s seemingly deglobalizing economy, policymakers across the world are in a quandary over how to regulate foreign firms. Should policymakers prevent foreign firms from attaining dominant market...
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I will be in conversation w/ the AMAZING Adom Getachew, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, & Camille Robcis, w/ Kate Redburn moderating, on my new book, *The Future That Was*, at Columbia Law School on March 24th at 6 PM. (thanks to Madhav Khosla for the invite) Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth
First was a great talk by @jasonbjackson.bsky.social on how Indian and foreign business leaders and policymakers navigated decades of changing foreign investment policies at @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtNR... (2/8)
Jason Jackson - Traders, Speculators and Captains of Industry in India
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