Jason Jackson

How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS Veena Dubal interviews Aziza Ahmed about the exclusion of women from early AIDS definitions, the feminist lawyers and activists who transformed the government's response to the epidemic…

Thank you to the most brilliant @veenadubal.bsky.social for being my conversation partner about my book on the @lpeblog.bsky.social and to the masterful @jamesbrandt.bsky.social for his support. lpeproject.org/blog/how-fem... @bulaw.bsky.social

How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS Veena Dubal interviews Aziza Ahmed about the exclusion of women from early AIDS definitions, the feminist lawyers and activists who transformed the government's response to the epidemic…

Today, @veenadubal.bsky.social and @azizaahmed.bsky.social discuss the feminist lawyers and activists who secured recognition of the AIDS epidemic’s impact on women, the CDC’s willful ignorance around the disease’s reach, and the adverse public health consequences of carceral feminism.

Really appreciate Amy Cohen’s response to my book, esp the connection to Melinda Cooper’s “patrimonial capitalism’s,” moralized distinction btwn firms that are privately held or founder-controlled thru complex legal structures (eg tech) & the publicly traded corporation of managerial capitalism.

Very honored to see a review of my book in @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social ! www.thelancet.com/authored-by/...

This is in 90 minutes. Apparently there are 400 (?!) people signed up meaning we have a few spots left till we hit the limit... 👇👇👇

Still available for law reviews! Otherwise going to have to rework it for a peer reviewed sociology journal or something.

This afternoon! Would love to see you there. 😉

In conversation with @laprofelgp.bsky.social and Chandra Mohanty, Labyrinth Book Store, Princeton NJ March 26th @ 6 PM

"What looms now on the horizon is perhaps a post-moral turn that no longer asks its privileged market actors to represent their interests as about advancing a shared future."

Capital Without Moral Cover? Jason Jackson's Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry argues that capitalist societies develop a moral hierarchy of market actors, enabling certain firms to position their interests as good…

Today, Amy Cohen continues our symposium on @jasonbjackson.bsky.social's *Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry,* considering what his framework might tell us about the recent return of patrimonial capitalism in the United States.

Thanks so much @veenadubal.bsky.social! And thanks especially for your agenda-setting work on labor and tech which has deeply influenced by own. 🙏🙏

Moral Orders of Capitalist Legitimacy In today’s seemingly deglobalizing economy, policymakers across the world are in a quandary over how to regulate foreign firms. Should policymakers prevent foreign firms from attaining dominant market...

How are policymakers outside the US thinking about US tech firms?? @jasonbjackson.bsky.social's FASCINATING new book helped me to understand the kinds of moral schemas that post-colonial nations are using to shape foreign investment policy.

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Check out the @lpeblog.bsky.social symposium on @jasonbjackson.bsky.social ‘s new book lpeproject.org/blog/moral-o...

Really honored to have my new @harvardpress.bsky.social book be part of an @lpeblog.bsky.social symposium! I am deeply grateful to @lpeproject.bsky.social colleagues for the opportunity, and to my respondents @maggor.bsky.social, @abalasub.bsky.social & Amy Cohen for engaging with my work. 🙏

Moral Orders of Capitalist Legitimacy In today’s seemingly deglobalizing economy, policymakers across the world are in a quandary over how to regulate foreign firms. Should policymakers prevent foreign firms from attaining dominant market...

Today, @jasonbjackson.bsky.social kicks off a symposium on his new book, *Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India.*

Economic policymaking, he argues, is best understood as a state-led project of moral ordering of capital.

I will be in conversation w/ the AMAZING Adom Getachew, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, & Camille Robcis, w/ Kate Redburn moderating, on my new book, *The Future That Was*, at Columbia Law School on March 24th at 6 PM.

(thanks to Madhav Khosla for the invite)

Register here:

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Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth

Thanks much Ben!

YouTube video by Watson School of International and Public Affairs Jason Jackson - Traders, Speculators and Captains of Industry in India

First was a great talk by @jasonbjackson.bsky.social on how Indian and foreign business leaders and policymakers navigated decades of changing foreign investment policies at @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtNR... (2/8)

Looking forward to tomorrow’s @brown.edu event on my new @harvardpress.bsky.social book “Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry,” esp the discussion w/ @mkblyth.bsky.social , @itihaasnaama.bsky.social , & @pheller.bsky.social! events.brown.edu/ccsa/event/3...

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 ...

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...

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.

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.

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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...

Many thanks @quinnslobodian.com for the nice words about the book, and especially for all of your suggestions and feedback at the workshop for the draft manuscript! Very much appreciated 🙏

Constructing Economic Nationalisms in Brazil and India Cambridge Core - Economic Development and Growth - Constructing Economic Nationalisms in Brazil and India

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?

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!

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.

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.

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…

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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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...