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Anush Kapadia
Associate Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), IIT Bombay
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Associate Faculty
I work on the politics of financial systems, trying to understand how system-design choices are also political choices, and how these choices lead to macro-social outcomes such as growth or crises. I have done both theoretical and empirical work in case studies covering Indian bond markets, the US shadow-banking system, the EU, and the global reserve system.
Research Interests
Indian Industrial Policy in the IT sectorIndian Industrial Policy in the Auto/Auto parts sectorIndian Industrial Policy in the Pharma sector
Education
Ph.D. Anthropology, Columbia University, 2009
M.Phil. Anthropology, Columbia University, 2007
M.A. Anthropology, Columbia University, 2001
B.A. Political Science, Amherst College, 2000
M.Phil. Anthropology, Columbia University, 2007
M.A. Anthropology, Columbia University, 2001
B.A. Political Science, Amherst College, 2000
Publications
The Death of the Social, (Review of) Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo, Anthropology Now, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 108-111, April 2013.
Encyclopedia Plutonica, (review of Piketty’s Capital in the twenty-first centurty), Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 5 (1): 509–516, 2015.
Co-authored with Arjun Jayadev, The Credit Crisis: Where It Came From, What Happened, and How It Might End, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 43, Issue No. 49, 06 Dec, 2008.
Book Chapters:
Co-authored with Arjun Jayadev, When the Facts Change: How Can the Financial Crisis Change Minds? Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 44, Issue No. 13, 28 Mar, 2009.
Europe and the logic of hierarchy, Journal of Comparative Economics, 41, 436–446, 2013.
Money and Demonetisation: The Fetish of Fiat, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. LI, Issue No. 51, 17 December, 2016.
The Structure of State Borrowing: Towards a Political Theory of Control Mechanisms, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 10, Issue 1 1 March 2017.
Projects