Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry

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Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry is written by Jason Jackson and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674293762 (ISBN 10) and 9780674293762 (ISBN 13).

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.