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!

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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...

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)

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Can’t wait for @jasonbjackson.bsky.social book launch Wednesday - register here

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📆 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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”?

Commenting on Timothy Mitchell’s new book on Thursday with Chris Desan at Harvard.

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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…

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…

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.

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.

Very honored to see a review of my book in @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social ! www.thelancet.com/authored-by/...

This is in 90 minutes. Apparently there are 400 (?!) people signed up meaning we have a few spots left till we hit the limit... 👇👇👇

Still available for law reviews! Otherwise going to have to rework it for a peer reviewed sociology journal or something.

This afternoon! Would love to see you there. 😉

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."

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…

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.

Thanks so much @veenadubal.bsky.social! And thanks especially for your agenda-setting work on labor and tech which has deeply influenced by own. 🙏🙏

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...

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.

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Check out the @lpeblog.bsky.social symposium on @jasonbjackson.bsky.social ‘s new book lpeproject.org/blog/moral-o...

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. 🙏

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...

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.

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:

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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

Thanks much Ben!

Jason Jackson - Traders, Speculators and Captains of Industry in India YouTube video by Watson School of International and Public Affairs

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)

Looking forward to tomorrow’s @brown.edu event on my new @harvardpress.bsky.social book “Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry,” esp the discussion w/ @mkblyth.bsky.social , @itihaasnaama.bsky.social , & @pheller.bsky.social! events.brown.edu/ccsa/event/3...

Silicon Empires w/ Nick Srnicek Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI. A deep exploration of the political economy of AI: the fulcrum of the authoritarian tech oligarchy—and of global contests for economic ...

The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...

The Means-Testing Industrial Complex As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.

Corporations are extracting billions from America’s safety net and their payday is about to be supercharged by new rules.

I lay out how programs like Medicaid have become vulnerable to corporate capture and what we need to build to stop it.

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