Jason Jackson is Associate Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and Director of the Political Economy Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Jason’s research is broadly concerned with the relationship between states and markets in processes of economic development and social transformation in modern capitalism. Jason is currently engaged with projects on the role of anti-colonial economic nationalism in development; the rise of platform firms, the digital economy and the future of work; the return of industrial policy; and the global governance of public health. He is author of the forthcoming books Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Indian Foreign Investment Policy (Harvard University Press) and Constructing Economic Nationalisms in Brazil and India (Cambridge University Press).