Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry : How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Jason.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--Economic policy.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Foreign capital can catalyze economic growth in developing countries but can also be a vehicle for extraction. Jason Jackson shows how Indian officials have navigated this terrain, developing moral discourses and economic policies that favor firms--both foreign and domestic--seen as investing in industrial transformation and societal modernization.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Rise of Indian Economic Nationalism

2. The Paradox of Indian Economic Nationalism

3. Competing Modernities and Technological Imaginaries

4. Reordering Capital under Statist Developmentalism

5. Populism, Authoritarianism, Anticapitalism

6. Aspirational Consumerism and Neoliberalism

7. Cowboy Multinationals and One-Night Stands

8. From "Indian Economic Man" to "Davos Man

Conclusion

Notes

References

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-674-30214-1

0-674-30215-X

9780674302150

OCLC:

1528568593