Anthony P D’costa
Biographic Data
| ID | 307580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony P D’costa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony P |
| FAMILY NAME | D’costa |
| SIGNATURE | D’COSTA A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington Tacoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7235-1876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Structures of Inequality and International Mobility of the Wealthy and Talent from Asia
This paper provides an analytical framework to examine the relationship between structural inequality (SI) and the international mobility (IM) of the wealthy and technical talent from Asia. My argument is that since the deregulation of the 1980s new structures of inequality have been established with broad economic reforms under a neoliberal form of “globalization.” While many Asian economies have benefited from global opportunities, there have b…
State, Business Association, and Diaspora
The Indian information technology and software services sector has been a poster boy of Indian business. The purpose of this paper is to offer an interest-based institutional understanding of the factors behind the governance of the IT sector’s growth, which departs from the national narrative of economic change. Three actors are identified, namely, the state, the industry and its business association, and the role of the Indian diaspora that lin…
Closed Loop, Open Borders
The purpose of this article is to offer an alternative perspective to worsening wealth disparity in India. It does so by critically applying the framework of uneven and combined development in a novel way. It develops two analytical constructs based on internal and external forces that collectively contribute to increasing wealth inequality. The internal force is a closed loop in which the state privileges rent-seeking activities as a response to…
Capitalist Progress and Moral Economy
Capitalist progress implies the destruction of the old and uncompetitive sectors and the creation of new ones in their wake. However, in the Global South the loss of jobs in the older sectors is not necessarily offset by the new forms of employment. The objective of this paper is to critically examine how the vast employment in the Indian handloom sector could be sustained, given the competitive pressures from alternative technologies and product…
Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State
Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State
This book critically discusses the changing relationship between the Indian state and capital by examining the mediating role of society in influencing developmental outcomes. It theorizes the state's changing context allowing the discussion of its pursuit of contradictory economic and social welfare goals simultaneously. Both structural and ideological factors are argued to contribute to a shifting context, but the centrality of re-distributive …
Capitalist maturity and South Korea's post‐development conundrum
South Korea's post World War II economic development trajectory is well known. From an impoverished warn‐torn nation, the country has progressed on all fronts. However, the objective is to focus on the “post‐development” question, namely, what does a country do after it becomes prosperous. To put it another way, what are some of the emergent challenges that successful development poses for Korea, and how might it tackle them. I use the concept of…
Compressed Capitalism and Development
The global capitalist system is at a particular historical juncture with a dilution of the capitalist core away from Western (and Japanese) centers of accumulation to China and India, among other countries. What is the nature of capitalism in these countries? Are China and India going along the same development trajectories that advanced capitalist countries followed earlier? Is their accumulation model the same as that of the OECD economies or i…
Globalization And Economic Nationalism In Asia
This work documents the ways in which Asian governments have pursued economic nationalism even as they have been integrating with the world economy. It challenges the popular view that with globalization, either the role of the state becomes redundant or that states are unable to purposefully intervene in the economy
Geography, uneven development and distributive justice
The aim of the paper is to apply a political economy framework both to explain the rise of the information technology (IT) industry and to analyse the spatial and developmental consequences of this growth, especially the distributive dimension on the wider society. The purpose is also to reveal the contradictions associated with the industry, question the crude optimism surrounding the IT sector's transformative capabilities, and by extension, as…
Economic nationalism in motion
With increasing economic interdependence, the scholarly treatment as well as the practice of economic nationalism is either seen as theoretically redundant or practically impossible. Contrary to this conclusion, I argue that economic nationalism is not inconsistent with globalization. States are not only active participants in globalization but they continue to strategically express nationalism in new global settings by supporting national firms …
The Barbarians Are Here
This article examines why Japan is not perceived to be attractive by foreign technical talent even though there is growing demand for such professionals. It examines three sets of barriers: Japanese business practices, immigration policies and social-cultural factors. Given Japan's sluggish growth and demographic crisis, the study also suggests that countries and cities, when playing the globalisation game of attracting talent for national compet…
Uneven and Combined Development
Trade and Dependence
Dimensions of External Economic Transactions Some Remarks on the Indian Experiences Managing the Constraints in Balance of Payments during the 1980s External Economic Constraints and Domestic Economic Policy during mid-1980s Tied Loans, Liquidity Gap and the Two-Gap Models of Aid An Exercise on Indian Data A Financial Reclassification of Balance of Payments based on the Liquidity Gap Theory and Practice of International Credit Ratings The Case of…
Capitalist maturity and corporate responses to economic liberalization in India
This paper presents the creative adjustment undertaken by some segments of the Indian corporate sector to economic reforms. While economic dynamism has been far short of expectations, the commercial maturity of Indian firms in certain segments has been noteworthy. The steel, auto, and software industries in India are examined to outline some of the broader strategies of Indian firms. The diversity of strategies reflects the evolving institutional…
The long march to capitalism
The restructuring of the Indian automobile industry
State, steel and strength
This article introduces the concept of structural competitiveness to explain the rapid development of South Korean steel industry. Three elements of structural competitiveness are: state autonomy, sound economic policy and indigenous technological capability. These elements have a significant bearing on the bargaining capacity of the state, autonomous investment decisions, labour control, the acquisition and absorption of modern technology, and u…
Uneven and Combined Development
Economic nationalism in motion
With increasing economic interdependence, the scholarly treatment as well as the practice of economic nationalism is either seen as theoretically redundant or practically impossible. Contrary to this conclusion, I argue that economic nationalism is not inconsistent with globalization. States are not only active participants in globalization but they continue to strategically express nationalism in new global settings by supporting national firms …
The restructuring of the Indian automobile industry
Geography, uneven development and distributive justice
The aim of the paper is to apply a political economy framework both to explain the rise of the information technology (IT) industry and to analyse the spatial and developmental consequences of this growth, especially the distributive dimension on the wider society. The purpose is also to reveal the contradictions associated with the industry, question the crude optimism surrounding the IT sector's transformative capabilities, and by extension, as…
Closed Loop, Open Borders
The purpose of this article is to offer an alternative perspective to worsening wealth disparity in India. It does so by critically applying the framework of uneven and combined development in a novel way. It develops two analytical constructs based on internal and external forces that collectively contribute to increasing wealth inequality. The internal force is a closed loop in which the state privileges rent-seeking activities as a response to…
Capitalist maturity and South Korea's post‐development conundrum
South Korea's post World War II economic development trajectory is well known. From an impoverished warn‐torn nation, the country has progressed on all fronts. However, the objective is to focus on the “post‐development” question, namely, what does a country do after it becomes prosperous. To put it another way, what are some of the emergent challenges that successful development poses for Korea, and how might it tackle them. I use the concept of…
The Barbarians Are Here
This article examines why Japan is not perceived to be attractive by foreign technical talent even though there is growing demand for such professionals. It examines three sets of barriers: Japanese business practices, immigration policies and social-cultural factors. Given Japan's sluggish growth and demographic crisis, the study also suggests that countries and cities, when playing the globalisation game of attracting talent for national compet…
Capitalist maturity and corporate responses to economic liberalization in India
This paper presents the creative adjustment undertaken by some segments of the Indian corporate sector to economic reforms. While economic dynamism has been far short of expectations, the commercial maturity of Indian firms in certain segments has been noteworthy. The steel, auto, and software industries in India are examined to outline some of the broader strategies of Indian firms. The diversity of strategies reflects the evolving institutional…
The long march to capitalism
Capitalist Progress and Moral Economy
Capitalist progress implies the destruction of the old and uncompetitive sectors and the creation of new ones in their wake. However, in the Global South the loss of jobs in the older sectors is not necessarily offset by the new forms of employment. The objective of this paper is to critically examine how the vast employment in the Indian handloom sector could be sustained, given the competitive pressures from alternative technologies and product…
State, steel and strength
This article introduces the concept of structural competitiveness to explain the rapid development of South Korean steel industry. Three elements of structural competitiveness are: state autonomy, sound economic policy and indigenous technological capability. These elements have a significant bearing on the bargaining capacity of the state, autonomous investment decisions, labour control, the acquisition and absorption of modern technology, and u…
The long march to capitalism
The restructuring of the Indian automobile industry
Capitalist maturity and corporate responses to economic liberalization in India
This paper presents the creative adjustment undertaken by some segments of the Indian corporate sector to economic reforms. While economic dynamism has been far short of expectations, the commercial maturity of Indian firms in certain segments has been noteworthy. The steel, auto, and software industries in India are examined to outline some of the broader strategies of Indian firms. The diversity of strategies reflects the evolving institutional…
Trade and Dependence
Dimensions of External Economic Transactions Some Remarks on the Indian Experiences Managing the Constraints in Balance of Payments during the 1980s External Economic Constraints and Domestic Economic Policy during mid-1980s Tied Loans, Liquidity Gap and the Two-Gap Models of Aid An Exercise on Indian Data A Financial Reclassification of Balance of Payments based on the Liquidity Gap Theory and Practice of International Credit Ratings The Case of…
Uneven and Combined Development
The Barbarians Are Here
This article examines why Japan is not perceived to be attractive by foreign technical talent even though there is growing demand for such professionals. It examines three sets of barriers: Japanese business practices, immigration policies and social-cultural factors. Given Japan's sluggish growth and demographic crisis, the study also suggests that countries and cities, when playing the globalisation game of attracting talent for national compet…
Economic nationalism in motion
With increasing economic interdependence, the scholarly treatment as well as the practice of economic nationalism is either seen as theoretically redundant or practically impossible. Contrary to this conclusion, I argue that economic nationalism is not inconsistent with globalization. States are not only active participants in globalization but they continue to strategically express nationalism in new global settings by supporting national firms …
Geography, uneven development and distributive justice
The aim of the paper is to apply a political economy framework both to explain the rise of the information technology (IT) industry and to analyse the spatial and developmental consequences of this growth, especially the distributive dimension on the wider society. The purpose is also to reveal the contradictions associated with the industry, question the crude optimism surrounding the IT sector's transformative capabilities, and by extension, as…
Globalization And Economic Nationalism In Asia
This work documents the ways in which Asian governments have pursued economic nationalism even as they have been integrating with the world economy. It challenges the popular view that with globalization, either the role of the state becomes redundant or that states are unable to purposefully intervene in the economy
Compressed Capitalism and Development
The global capitalist system is at a particular historical juncture with a dilution of the capitalist core away from Western (and Japanese) centers of accumulation to China and India, among other countries. What is the nature of capitalism in these countries? Are China and India going along the same development trajectories that advanced capitalist countries followed earlier? Is their accumulation model the same as that of the OECD economies or i…
Capitalist maturity and South Korea's post‐development conundrum
South Korea's post World War II economic development trajectory is well known. From an impoverished warn‐torn nation, the country has progressed on all fronts. However, the objective is to focus on the “post‐development” question, namely, what does a country do after it becomes prosperous. To put it another way, what are some of the emergent challenges that successful development poses for Korea, and how might it tackle them. I use the concept of…
Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State
Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State
This book critically discusses the changing relationship between the Indian state and capital by examining the mediating role of society in influencing developmental outcomes. It theorizes the state's changing context allowing the discussion of its pursuit of contradictory economic and social welfare goals simultaneously. Both structural and ideological factors are argued to contribute to a shifting context, but the centrality of re-distributive …
Capitalist Progress and Moral Economy
Capitalist progress implies the destruction of the old and uncompetitive sectors and the creation of new ones in their wake. However, in the Global South the loss of jobs in the older sectors is not necessarily offset by the new forms of employment. The objective of this paper is to critically examine how the vast employment in the Indian handloom sector could be sustained, given the competitive pressures from alternative technologies and product…
Closed Loop, Open Borders
The purpose of this article is to offer an alternative perspective to worsening wealth disparity in India. It does so by critically applying the framework of uneven and combined development in a novel way. It develops two analytical constructs based on internal and external forces that collectively contribute to increasing wealth inequality. The internal force is a closed loop in which the state privileges rent-seeking activities as a response to…
Structures of Inequality and International Mobility of the Wealthy and Talent from Asia
This paper provides an analytical framework to examine the relationship between structural inequality (SI) and the international mobility (IM) of the wealthy and technical talent from Asia. My argument is that since the deregulation of the 1980s new structures of inequality have been established with broad economic reforms under a neoliberal form of “globalization.” While many Asian economies have benefited from global opportunities, there have b…
State, Business Association, and Diaspora
The Indian information technology and software services sector has been a poster boy of Indian business. The purpose of this paper is to offer an interest-based institutional understanding of the factors behind the governance of the IT sector’s growth, which departs from the national narrative of economic change. Three actors are identified, namely, the state, the industry and its business association, and the role of the Indian diaspora that lin…
Economics (15 works) · Indian Economic and Social Development (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Economic system (10 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (8 works) · Market economy (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economy (7 works) · Development economics (6 works)