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.
– Sociology and political economy of finance
– Political economy of development
– Indian political economy
– Theories of money
– Classical political economy
– New and old Institutionalism
– History of economic thought
A.B. Political Science, Amherst College, 2000
M.A. Anthropology, Columbia University, 2001
M.Phil. Anthropology, Columbia University, 2007
Ph.D. Anthropology, Columbia University, 2009
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
Assistant Professor, Deptartment of Humanitie 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
