Jason Jackson
@jasonbjackson.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Economy || Director, Political Economy Lab ||
Department of Urban Studies and Planning ||
MIT
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Department of Urban Studies and Planning ||
MIT
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Jason Jackson
@jasonbjackson.bsky.social
· Dec 20
I’m happy to share that my book “Traders, Speculators and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India,” published by @harvardpress.bsky.social is out!
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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...
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 ...
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January 26, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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...
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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.
@lpeblog.bsky.social
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I lay out how programs like Medicaid have become vulnerable to corporate capture and what we need to build to stop it.
@lpeblog.bsky.social
lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...
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.
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January 28, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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.
@lpeblog.bsky.social
lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...
I lay out how programs like Medicaid have become vulnerable to corporate capture and what we need to build to stop it.
@lpeblog.bsky.social
lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...
Excited for this talk on my new book “Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry” (@HarvardPress.bsky.social), hosted by the UC Berkeley Inst. for South Asia Studies w/discussants @marionf.bsky.social & David Singh Grewal & moderator Sai Balakrishnan. Livestream www.facebook.com/ISASatUCBerk...
January 26, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Excited for this talk on my new book “Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry” (@HarvardPress.bsky.social), hosted by the UC Berkeley Inst. for South Asia Studies w/discussants @marionf.bsky.social & David Singh Grewal & moderator Sai Balakrishnan. Livestream www.facebook.com/ISASatUCBerk...
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A very interesting open access book by @jasonbjackson.bsky.social engaging a puzzle: why did India restrict FDI in auto manufacturing but allowed multinationals in oil, while Brazil welcomed foreign auto companies but prohibited FDI in oil?
Constructing Economic Nationalisms in Brazil and India
Cambridge Core - Economic Development and Growth - Constructing Economic Nationalisms in Brazil and India
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January 12, 2026 at 9:31 PM
A very interesting open access book by @jasonbjackson.bsky.social engaging a puzzle: why did India restrict FDI in auto manufacturing but allowed multinationals in oil, while Brazil welcomed foreign auto companies but prohibited FDI in oil?
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If reading more is a 2026 resolution, let our upcoming Virtual Warehouse Sale get you started! We're throwing open our online doors at HBSWarehouseSale.com from Jan.16-18; the warehouse is full of thousands of new books at 40-80% off their list price, and remember when a title sell out, it's gone!
December 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
If reading more is a 2026 resolution, let our upcoming Virtual Warehouse Sale get you started! We're throwing open our online doors at HBSWarehouseSale.com from Jan.16-18; the warehouse is full of thousands of new books at 40-80% off their list price, and remember when a title sell out, it's gone!
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Today, our ten most read posts of 2025!
What good is policy-adjacent scholarship? Does the 1st Amendment protect the economic infrastructure of speech? Can Trump grant Texas 40 Senators through executive order?
Our brilliant authors answered these and other questions during this annus horribilis.
What good is policy-adjacent scholarship? Does the 1st Amendment protect the economic infrastructure of speech? Can Trump grant Texas 40 Senators through executive order?
Our brilliant authors answered these and other questions during this annus horribilis.
Our Most Read Posts of 2025
Exactly what it says on the tin. Revisit the entries from the past year that readers turned to the most.
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December 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Today, our ten most read posts of 2025!
What good is policy-adjacent scholarship? Does the 1st Amendment protect the economic infrastructure of speech? Can Trump grant Texas 40 Senators through executive order?
Our brilliant authors answered these and other questions during this annus horribilis.
What good is policy-adjacent scholarship? Does the 1st Amendment protect the economic infrastructure of speech? Can Trump grant Texas 40 Senators through executive order?
Our brilliant authors answered these and other questions during this annus horribilis.
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1/2 🧵 🚨 Just in time for the holidays! We’re thrilled to share ROAPE Special Issue 186, Vol. 52, celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s radical life, work and legacy 🎄🔥
Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation
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Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation
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Frantz Fanon at 100: class struggle and the future of African liberation - ROAPE
Chinedu Chukwudinma, Christopher J. Lee and Bettina Engels introduce special issue 186, Volume 52 of the journal, dedicated to honouring the centenary of the Martiniquais-Algerian revolutionary…
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December 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
1/2 🧵 🚨 Just in time for the holidays! We’re thrilled to share ROAPE Special Issue 186, Vol. 52, celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s radical life, work and legacy 🎄🔥
Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation
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Editorial: #Fanon100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation
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2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥
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💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
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💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
December 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥
👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN
💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN
💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.
#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
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It was an honor to be interviewed in-depth by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @proteanmag.com
A key theme: how to analyze “extractive frontiers” from a world-systemic perspective attentive to both the structures of colonialism and capitalism—and to socio-ecological struggle proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
A key theme: how to analyze “extractive frontiers” from a world-systemic perspective attentive to both the structures of colonialism and capitalism—and to socio-ecological struggle proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
December 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
It was an honor to be interviewed in-depth by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @proteanmag.com
A key theme: how to analyze “extractive frontiers” from a world-systemic perspective attentive to both the structures of colonialism and capitalism—and to socio-ecological struggle proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
A key theme: how to analyze “extractive frontiers” from a world-systemic perspective attentive to both the structures of colonialism and capitalism—and to socio-ecological struggle proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
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I wrote a book that I hope helps people think about the relationship between law, science, social movements, &political economy.
It tells the story of how feminists transformed the response to AIDS to ensure better access to healthcare.
Avail for preorder!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
It tells the story of how feminists transformed the response to AIDS to ensure better access to healthcare.
Avail for preorder!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
Risk and Resistance
Cambridge Core - American Studies - Risk and Resistance
www.cambridge.org
September 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I wrote a book that I hope helps people think about the relationship between law, science, social movements, &political economy.
It tells the story of how feminists transformed the response to AIDS to ensure better access to healthcare.
Avail for preorder!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
It tells the story of how feminists transformed the response to AIDS to ensure better access to healthcare.
Avail for preorder!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
I’m happy to share that my book “Traders, Speculators and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India,” published by @harvardpress.bsky.social is out!
December 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I’m happy to share that my book “Traders, Speculators and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India,” published by @harvardpress.bsky.social is out!
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Thea Riofrancos on lithium mining and the contradictions of “green capitalism”
What’s Underground | Thea Riofrancos
Lithium is the third element in the periodic table. It is the lightest, least dense metal—although it is never encountered as such in nature, since it’s
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September 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Thea Riofrancos on lithium mining and the contradictions of “green capitalism”
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fresh audio product:
• Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social , author of Extraction, on the complexities of lithium
• Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social, author of Free Gifts, on the weird relationship between capitalism and Nature
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• Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social , author of Extraction, on the complexities of lithium
• Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social, author of Free Gifts, on the weird relationship between capitalism and Nature
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
December 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
fresh audio product:
• Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social , author of Extraction, on the complexities of lithium
• Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social, author of Free Gifts, on the weird relationship between capitalism and Nature
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
• Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social , author of Extraction, on the complexities of lithium
• Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social, author of Free Gifts, on the weird relationship between capitalism and Nature
www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...
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Today, @rohangrey.bsky.social kicks off a series on the law and political economy of cryptocurrency, by considering the Left's missed opportunities and explaining how it can reclaim control over the future of money.
How the Left Lost the Plot on Crypto (and How to Find it Again)
The story of crypto’s transformation from cypherpunk experiment to Wall Street darling is bleak, but it was not preordained. Where did the left go wrong, and how can it reassert itself in shaping the…
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December 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Today, @rohangrey.bsky.social kicks off a series on the law and political economy of cryptocurrency, by considering the Left's missed opportunities and explaining how it can reclaim control over the future of money.
Really enjoyed sharing thoughts on Aditi Dey’s & Charli Muller’s excellent papers!
Jason Jackson (MIT) and Ben Siegel (BU) contributed fantastic commentaries on their presentations and to round out the first session of the conference.
December 15, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Really enjoyed sharing thoughts on Aditi Dey’s & Charli Muller’s excellent papers!
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We are thrilled to host our fourth annual grantee conference – Two, Three, Many Developmentalisms – today and tomorrow at @bupardeeschool.bsky.social.
December 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We are thrilled to host our fourth annual grantee conference – Two, Three, Many Developmentalisms – today and tomorrow at @bupardeeschool.bsky.social.
Very excited that we have made this announcement as an LPE community!
Today, a call to join the next era of LPE: a democratic, independent, member-led organization that will serve as a home for a broad array of LPE work.
LPE 2.0: A New Association to Meet the Times
As the Trump administration attempts to suppress critical inquiry and operate outside of conventional legal boundaries, the work of LPE scholars, organizers, and practitioners has never been more…
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December 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Very excited that we have made this announcement as an LPE community!
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Friends - important update on the new LPE Association conference! Moved to Feb 5-7, which will give us all a little more time to plan. Get those paper and panel ideas going, friends, and see you in Richmond!
LPE friends - CONFERENCE UPDATE!! ⏰☎️ Planning is still underway for the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association, but we're pushing the dates to FEBRUARY 5-7, 2026. We'll be putting out a CFP by August with information about how and what to submit. Until then, save the new date!
June 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Friends - important update on the new LPE Association conference! Moved to Feb 5-7, which will give us all a little more time to plan. Get those paper and panel ideas going, friends, and see you in Richmond!
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LPE friends - CONFERENCE UPDATE!! ⏰☎️ Planning is still underway for the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association, but we're pushing the dates to FEBRUARY 5-7, 2026. We'll be putting out a CFP by August with information about how and what to submit. Until then, save the new date!
June 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
LPE friends - CONFERENCE UPDATE!! ⏰☎️ Planning is still underway for the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association, but we're pushing the dates to FEBRUARY 5-7, 2026. We'll be putting out a CFP by August with information about how and what to submit. Until then, save the new date!