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akapadia@iitb.ac.in
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Anush Kapadia

Associate Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), IIT Bombay

Bio

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 Areas

Topic A: Indian Industrial Policy in the IT sector
For PhD/MPP

Research Area: Markets and Governance Processes

Description: What set of policies have led, directly and/or indirectly, to the growth of the Indian IT sector since the 1970s? What combination of roles in terms of Evans’ Custodian, Demiurge, Midwifery, and Husbandry has the state played in this sector post-liberalisation? What role of the state is optimal for different subsectors of the IT industry? What is the political economy of these various roles in this sector? What set of roles can we think about to move the IT up the value chain in the near to medium term? How do we evaluate the Ministry for Electronics and Telecommuncation’s Production Linked incentive scheme?

Topic B: Indian Industrial Policy in the Auto/Auto parts sector
For PhD/MPP

Research Area: Markets and Governance Processes

Description: What set of policies have led, directly and/or indirectly, to the growth of the Indian Auto sector since the 1980s? What combination of roles in terms of Evans’ Custodian, Demiurge, Midwifery, and Husbandry has the state played in this sector post-liberalisation? What role of the state is optimal for different subsectors of the Auto industry? What is the political economy of these various roles in this sector? How has the Indian auto sector fared vs the autopart sector? Is the auto sector an example of too much protectionism or too little industrial policy of the Midwife/Husbandry kind?

Topic C: Indian Industrial Policy in the Pharma sector
For PhD/MPP

Research Area: Markets and Governance Processes

Description: What set of policies have led, directly and/or indirectly, to the growth of the Indian Pharma sector? What combination of roles in terms of Evans’ Custodian, Demiurge, Midwifery, and Husbandry has the state played in this sector post-liberalisation? What role of the state is optimal for different subsectors of the industry? What is the political economy of these various roles in this sector? Has the pharma sector got stuck at the low value-added end of the chain? Is this because of local factors, global factors, or some lacunae in industrial policy?

Academic Background

  • 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

    • Publications

    Journal Articles:

  • 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.
  • Money and Demonetisation: The Fetish of Fiat, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. LI, Issue No. 51, 17 December, 2016.
  • Europe and the logic of hierarchy, Journal of Comparative Economics, 41, 436–446, 2013.

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • Encyclopedia Plutonica, (review of Piketty’s Capital in the twenty-first centurty), Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 5 (1): 509–516, 2015.

  • 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.

    • Op-Ed:

    http://www.ndtv.com/author/anush-kapadia
    http://www.livemint.com/Search/Link/Author/Anush%20Kapadia

    Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, 2016-
  • Lecturer on International Politics, City University, London, 2013-2016
  • Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University, 2011-2013
  • Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, 2009- 2011