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Updated: November 30, 2017

ANTHONY P. D’COSTA

EDUCATION (1983-89)

Ph.D. International Development Studies; Graduate School of Public and International

Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A. Areas: Globalization, Technology, State,

Development, India, East Asia, Latin America.

Dissertation: Capital Accumulation, Technology, and the State: The Political Economy of

Steel Industry Restructuring.

Master of Arts (1975-80)

(5-year integrated program without an intermediate BA degree)

Economics (Honors); Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India

Languages spoken: Bangla, Hindi, and a bit of Nepali.

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2018 – Current

Eminent Scholar in Global Studies and Professor of Economics

College of Business, University of Alabama, Huntsville

2013 – 2018

Chair and Professor

Professor of Contemporary Indian Studies, Australia-India Institute (2013-16) (endowed

by the Victoria Government); Director, Development Studies Program, School of Social

and Political Sciences (2017-18), University of Melbourne, Melbourne

2008 – 2013

Chair and Professor

Professor in Indian Studies, A.P. Møller-Mærsk Foundation endowed chair and Research

Director, Asia Research Centre, Department of International Economics and

Management, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark

1990 – 2008

Full Professor (2004 - 2008)

Associate Professor (1996 - 2004)

Assistant Professor ((1990 - 1996)

Comparative International Development, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of

Washington, Tacoma

Full Member South Asian Studies Program, Affiliate Member, International Studies,

Jackson School of International Studies, Affiliate Member, Labor Studies, University of

Washington, Seattle

1997 (One Year)

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Senior Fellow, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore

1987-1988

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

OTHER POSITIONS (HONORARY)

Honorary Academic Fellow, Australia-India Institute, University of Melbourne (2017-

Current)

Visiting Scholar, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington,

Seattle (2016, 2019-20, 2020-21).

COURSES TAUGHT

University of Alabama in Huntsville

International Business (undergraduate, graduate)

Economic Development in the Global South (undergraduate, graduate)

Global Cities, Work, and Urbanization (honors seminar, undergraduate)

University of Melbourne, Melbourne

Contemporary India (undergraduate)

India in the World (graduate)

Contemporary India (MOOC Coursera platform, designed, coordinated, lectured),

enrollment of over 6,000 students from 120 countries.

Political Economy of Development in India (graduate)

Urbanization, Work, and Global Cities (graduate)

Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata (Postgraduate Executive MBA):

Institutions, Strategy and Dynamics of Industrial Change (January 2012, September-

October 2012).

Bordeaux Ecole de Management:

Selected Lectures (15 hours) on Contemporary India (graduate, March 2011, 2012, 2013)

Copenhagen Business School:

Emerging Markets: Societies in Transition (undergraduate)

Innovation in Emerging Markets (undergraduate)

Institutions, Strategy and Dynamics of Industrial Change in Asia (graduate)

International Business in Emerging Markets (graduate)

International Business and Strategy (graduate)

International Business Environment (undergraduate)

Asian Economic Organization and Competitiveness (undergraduate)

International Companies and Global Business Settings (undergraduate, evening program)

India in the World Economy (undergraduate)

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University of Washington, Tacoma:

International Interactions (undergraduate)

Theories of Economic Development and Social Change (undergraduate)

Globalization of Economic Activities (undergraduate)

Interpreting Enigmatic India (undergraduate)

Third World Cities (undergraduate)

Comparative Perspectives on East Asian and Latin American Development

(undergraduate)

International Business and Development (undergraduate)

The Political Economy of Technological Change (undergraduate)

Industrial Policy and US Manufacturing in Transition (undergraduate)

Capitalist Crisis (undergraduate)

University of Washington, Seattle: Institutions and Late Capitalist Development (honors,

undergraduate)

National University of Singapore:

Technology and Innovations (honors, undergraduate)

Microeconomics (undergraduate)

Development Economics (undergraduate)

PUBLICATIONS

SINGLE-AUTHORED BOOKS

2016: International Mobility, Global Capitalism, and Changing Structures of

Accumulation: Transforming the Japan-India IT Relationship, (London: Routledge).

https://www.routledge.com/International-Mobility-Global-Capitalism-and-Changing-

Structures-of-Accumulation/DCosta/p/book/9780415564953

2005: The Long March to Capitalism: Embourgeoisment, Internationalization, and

Industrial Transformation in India (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)

http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781403936479

1999: The Global Restructuring of the Steel Industry: Innovations, Institutions, and

Industrial Change (London: Routledge; Foreword by Amiya Kumar Bagchi).

http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203425220

EDITED VOLUMES

2017 GLOBALISASI DAN NASIONALISME EKONOMI DI ASIA (2017, a Malay

translation of my 2012 edited volume Globalization and Economic Nationalism in Asia

(Oxford: Oxford University Press) translated by Azman Ayub, Kuala Lumpur).

2015 D’Costa, A.P. (Editor) After Development Dynamics: South Korea’s Engagement

with Contemporary Asia (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

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https://global.oup.com/academic/product/after-development-dynamics-

9780198729433?cc=gb&lang=en&

2012 D’Costa, A.P. (Editor) Globalization and Economic Nationalism in Asia (Foreword

by Ajit Singh) (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (also in Malay, above).

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/globalization-and-economic-nationalism-in-

asia-9780199646210?cc=gb&lang=en&

2010 D’Costa, A.P. (Editor) A New India? Critical Reflections in the Long Twentieth

Century, (Foreword by Deepak Nayyar) (London: Anthem Press).

http://www.anthempress.com/a-new-india-pb

2006 D’Costa, A.P. (Editor) The New Economy in Development: ICT Challenges and

Opportunities, (Foreword by Matti Pohjola) (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)

http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9780230001466

CO-EDITED VOLUMES

2019 D’Costa, A.P. and Chakraborty, A. (Editors) Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles

of the Indian State: New Perspectives on Development Dynamics, Springer,

https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789811368905#aboutBook

2017 D’Costa, A.P. and Chakraborty, A. (Editors) The Land Question in India: State,

Dispossession, and Capitalist Transition (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-land-question-in-india-

9780198792444?q=D%27Costa&lang=en&cc=gb#

2012 Bagchi, A.K. and D’Costa, A.P. (Editors) Transformation and Development: The

Political Economy of Transition in India and China, (New Delhi: Oxford University

Press).

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/transformation-and-development-

9780198082286?cc=gb&lang=en&

2009 Parayil, G. and D’Costa, A.P. (Editors), The New Asian Innovation Dynamics:

China and India in Perspective (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).

http://www.palgrave.com/la/book/9780230209459

2004: D’Costa, A.P. and Sridharan, E. (editors) India in the Global Software Industry:

Innovation, Firm Strategies and Development (Basingstoke, New Delhi: Palgrave

Macmillan).

http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781403912527

RECENT BOOK CHAPTERS (TOTAL 30)

2019 (with Chakraborty, A.) “Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles: New Perspectives

on the Indian State” in D’Costa, A.P. and Chakraborty, A. (Editors) Changing Contexts

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and Shifting Roles of the Indian State: New Perspectives on Development Dynamics,

Singapore: Springer Nature, pp. 1-21.

2019 “Compressed Capitalism and a Critical Reading of the State’s Employment

Challenges” in D’Costa, A.P. and Chakraborty, A. (Editors) Changing Contexts and

Shifting Roles of the Indian State: New Perspectives on Development Dynamics,

Singapore: Springer Nature, pp. 126-153.

2018 “Mobility of Indian IT Professionals in the World Economy: Patterns and Future

Possibilities, in Migration in Asia: Increasing the Development Impact of Migration

Through Finance and Technology, ADBI, OECD, ILO, pp. 71-88.

2017 (with Achin Chakraborty) “The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession, and

Capitalist Transition,” in D’Costa, A.P. and Chakraborty, A. (eds). The Land Question in

India Today: State, Dispossession, and Going Beyond Capitalist Transition, Oxford:

Oxford University Press, pp. 16-45.

2017 Postscript Land, Livelihoods, and Late Capitalist Development in D’Costa, A.P.

and Chakraborty, A. (eds). The Land Question in India Today: State, Dispossession, and

Going Beyond Capitalist Transition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 325-329.

2016 “Compressed Capitalism and the Fate of Indian Development,” in Sita Venkateswar

and Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (eds.) Globalization, Economy and Challenges of

Development in Contemporary India, New Delhi: Springer, pp. 19-39.

2016 “Institutional Change, Industrial Logics, and Internationalization: Growth of Auto

and IT Sectors in India,” in Jason Begley, Dan Coffee, Tom Donnelly, and Carole

Thornley (eds.) Global Economic Crisis and Local Economic Development: International

Cases and Policy Responses, London: Routledge, pp. 95-119.

2015 “After Development Dynamics: South Korea’s Contemporary Engagements with

Asia”, in D’Costa, A.P. (Editor) After Development Dynamics: South Korea’s

Engagement with Contemporary Asia, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-26.

2015 Nam, S-W. and D’Costa, A.P. “What’s Next After Development? Some Policy

Directions for Korea” in D’Costa, A.P. (Editor) After Development Dynamics: South

Korea’s Engagement with Contemporary Asia, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.

263-276.

2014“Compressed Capitalism and the Challenges for Inclusive Development in India,” in

Dutta, D. (Editor) Inclusive Growth and Development in Two Emerging Economic Giants

of China and India in 21st Century, Singapore: World Scientific and Imperial College

Press, pp. 161-189.

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2013: “Globalization, the Middle Class and the Transformation of the Indian State in the

New Economy,” in Bhattacharya, S. (Editor), Two Decades of Market Reform in India:

Some Dissenting Views, London: Anthem Press, pp. 125-141.

2013 “Looking East and Beyond: The Indian IT Diaspora in Japan,” in Pillai, G. (Editor)

South Asian Diaspora: Patterns of Socio-Economic Influence, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Macmillan, pp. 9-32.

2012 “IT Workers on the Move with Globalization” in Chanda, N. and Levin, R.C. (eds.)

A World Connected: Globalization in the 21st Century, New Haven, CT: Yale Center for

the Study of Globalization, pp. 267-270.

2012 (with Bagchi, A.K.) “Transformation and Development: A Critical Introduction to

India and China” in Bagchi, A.K. and D’Costa, A.P. (Editors) Transformation and

Development: The Political Economy of Transition in India and China, Delhi: Oxford

University Press, pp. 1-38.

2012 “Capitalism and Economic Nationalism: Asian State Activism in the World

Economy,” in D’Costa, A.P. (Editor), Globalization and Economic Nationalism in Asia,

Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-32.

2012 “Looking Ahead at Economic Nationalism: Concluding Remarks,” in D’Costa, A.P.

(Editor), Globalization and Economic Nationalism in Asia, Oxford: Oxford University

Press, pp. 246-252.

2010: “What is This New India? An Introduction,” in D’Costa, A.P. (Editor) A New

India? Critical Reflections in the Long Twentieth Century, London: Anthem Press, pp.1-

22.

2009:(with Parayil, G.) “China, India, and the New Asian Innovation Dynamics: An

Introduction” in Parayil, G. and D’Costa, A.P. (eds.), The New Asian Innovation

Dynamics: China and India in Perspective (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 1-26.

2009: “Extensive Growth and Innovation Challenges in Bangalore, India” in Parayil, G.

and D’Costa, A.P. (eds.), The New Asian Innovation Dynamics: China and India in

Perspective (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 79-109.

2009: (with Kobayashi, T.) “Foreign Talent and Innovation: China and India in the

Japanese Software Industry” in Parayil, G. and D’Costa, A.P. (editors), The New Asian

Innovation Dynamics: China and India in Perspective, (Basingstoke: Palgrave

Macmillan), pp. 216-246.

2008: “The International Mobility of Technical Talent: Trends and Development

Implications,” in Solimano, A. (ed.) International Mobility of Talent and Development

Impact (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 44-83.

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RECENT REFEREED ARTICLES (TOTAL 25)

2018: “Capitalist Maturity and South Korea’s Post-Development Conundrum”, Asian and

Pacific Policy Studies, 5 (2): 279-297.

2014: “Compressed Capitalism and Development: Primitive Accumulation, Petty

Commodity Production, and Capitalist Maturity in India and China,” Critical Asian

Studies, 6 (2): 317-344.

2013: with Sudipta Bhattacharyya, Mathew Abraham, and Anthony D’Costa “Political

Economy of Agrarian Crisis and Slow Industrialization in India,” Social Scientist, 41 (11-

12), 43-63.

2013: “Positioning Indian Emigration to Japan: The Case of the IT Industry,” Migration

and Development, 1-21, DOI:10.1080/21632324.2013.773153

2011: “Geography, Uneven Development and Distributive Justice: The Political

Economy of IT Growth in India,” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society,

4 (2), 237-251.

2011: “Globalization, Crisis and Industrial Relations in the Indian Auto Industry,”

International Journal of Automotive Technology and Policy, 11 (2), 114-136.

2009: “Economic Nationalism in Motion: Steel, Auto, and Software Industries in India,”

Review of International Political Economy, 16 (4), 618-646.

2008: “The Barbarians are Here: How Japanese Institutional Barriers and Immigration

Policies Keep Asian Talent Away,” Asian Population Studies, November, 4 (3), 311—

329.

2006: Exports, University-Industry Linkages, and Innovation Challenges in Bangalore,

India, World Bank Policy Research Paper (WPS 3887), www.worldbank.org or

http://tinyurl.com/krpqw

2004: Flexible Institutions for Mass Production Goals: Economic Governance in the

Indian Automotive Industry, Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 13, No. 2, (335-367).

2003: Uneven and Combined Development: Understanding India’s Software Exports,

World Development, Vol. 13, No. 1 (211-226).

2003: Institutions and Industrial Governance in India: Learning Cooperation the Japanese

Way, Asian Business and Management Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1 (63-89)

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES (TOTAL 4)

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BOOK REVIEWS (TOTAL 19)

EDITORSHIP

2020 – Editorial Board, Entreciencias: diálogos en la Sociedad del Conocimiento,

Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Unidad León, UNAM, Mexico.

2019 – Steering Committee, Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche Permanent sur l'Industrie

et les Salariés de l'Automobile (GERPISA) or the Permanent Group for the Study of the

Automotive Industry and Its Employees, Paris.

2014 – Series Editor: Dynamics of Asian Development (Springer)

2014 – Book Review (Asia) Editor: Journal of Asian and African Studies (Sage)

2010 - Editorial Board, Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, Copenhagen Business

School

2007 – 13 Series Editor: India and Asia in the World Economy (London: Anthem Press)

2003 – 09 Series Editor, Technology, Globalization, and Development (Basingstoke:

Palgrave Macmillan)

2007 - Editorial Board, European Journal of Development Research, United Kingdom

and Germany

2006 – 2014 Editorial Board, Asian Business and Management journal

1998 – 2008 Member, Board of Trustees, American Institute of Indian Studies,

Chicago/Delhi

RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS

Ecole Normal Superiore, Cachan, Paris

Visiting Scholar, Tata-Cornell Institute of Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI), Cornell

University, Ithaca

Visiting Scholar, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

East West Center, Honolulu

Visiting Scholar, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

Honorary Visiting Professor, University of Technology, Sydney

Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, India

Visiting Senior Researcher, National Institute of Science, Technology and Development

Studies, under the Government of India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,

New Delhi

Visiting Researcher, College of Business, Rikkyo University, Tokyo.

Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, Singapore.

Senior Visiting Scholar, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of

Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Senior Visiting Scholar, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Visiting Researcher, Institute of Economic Research, Chiba University of Commerce,

Chiba, Japan.

Sabbatical Fellow, World Institute of Development Economics Research (WIDER),

United Nations University, Helsinki, Finland (August-September).

Visiting Faculty, Center for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta and the Indian

Institute of Management, Bangalore, India.

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Senior Fellow, Department of Economics & Statistics, National University of Singapore,

Singapore.

Visiting Fellow, Korea Development Institute, Seoul, Korea.

Centre for Studies in Economics and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,

India.

Department of Economics, Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil

FELLOWSHIPS/SELECTED GRANTS

2014: POSCO Visiting Fellow, East West Center, Honolulu

2013: Conference Grant, Dean and Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne

2012: Conference Grant, Academy of Korean Studies

2010: The Scandinavian-Japan Sasakawa Foundation Research Grant, Copenhagen.

2006: Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, Singapore

2003: Abe Fellow, (Japan Foundation), Social Science Research Council, New York

2003: Sabbatical Fellow, World Institute of Development Economics Research, United

Nations University, Helsinki, Finland

2002: Research Grant: Founders’ Endowment Fund, University of Washington,

Tacoma.

2001: Royalty Research Fund Scholar, University of Washington, Seattle.

1998: Senior Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies, Chicago.

1995: Travel Grant, Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington, Seattle.

1995: Fellow, Korea Program, Social Science Research Council, New York.

1994: Fellow, Korea Foundation, Seoul

1994: Research Grants (i) Founders' Endowment Fund; Tacoma (ii) Graduate Research

Fund, Seattle.

1992: Senior Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies, Chicago.

1991: Fellow, Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program, US Dept. of Education,

Washington, D.C.

1987: Travel Grant, Tinker Foundation, New York.

1985 and 1986: Research Fellowship for Latin American Studies at Latin American

Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (two summers).

CONFERENCE/SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION

Five international conferences, of which three in Copenhagen and two in Kolkata.

Organized six book launches, numerous public lectures, two half-day symposiums

Five political economy lectures for graduate students in collaboration with Oxford and

Cambridge Universities in Copenhagen.

SELECTED RECENT INVITED ACADEMIC LECTURES (TOTAL OVER 175

lectures)

2017: Six lectures

2016: Sixteen lectures

2015: Nine lectures

2014: Seven lectures

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2013: Eleven lectures

2012: Six lectures

2011: Fifteen lectures

2010: Eleven lectures

2009: Eighteen lectures

2008: Twelve lectures

1991-2007: Sixty-two lectures

2021 Invited Book Launch Discussant, A Love Story Beset with Challenges

Indian Migrants in Japan, Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia

University, Tokyo, January 9, 2021 (JST).

2020 Participated in the international webinar of GERPISA (Groupe d'Etude et de

Recherche Permanent sur l'Industrie et les Salariés de l'Automobile or the Permanent

Group for the Study of the Automotive Industry and Its Employees, Paris) Steering

Committee: Emergent Countries, July 3, 2020, http://gerpisa.org/en/node/6127

2020 Invited Lecture “Long Waves and Techno-economic Paradigms: Assessing the

Future of Work in the Indian Automotive Industry”, Graduate School of Economics and

Management, Tohoku University, Sendai, January 22, 2020.

2020 Invited Lecture “Closed Loop, Open Borders: Wealth and Inequality in India,”

Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University of Japan, Tokyo, January

20, 2020.

2020 Invited Lecture “Long Waves and Techno-economic Paradigms: Assessing the

Future of Work in the Indian Automotive Industry”, Graduate Seminar, College of

Business, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, January 17, 2020.

2020 Invited Lecture “Long Waves and Techno-economic Paradigms: Assessing the

Future of Work in the Indian Automotive Industry”, College of Business, Undergraduate

Program, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, January 16, 2020.

2019 Invited presentation “Thinking Differently About Better Jobs: Lateness and

Structural Change,” in “Transforming Economies: For Better Jobs” Conference of the

UNU-World Institute of Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki,

Finland and UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)

Bangkok, (September 11-13, 2019), Bangkok.

2019 Distinguished Lecture “Long Waves and Techno-economic Paradigms: Assessing

the Future of Work in the Indian Automotive Industry”, School of Economics and School

of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India (July 9, 2019).

2019 “Long Waves and Techno-economic Paradigms: Assessing the Future of Work in

the Indian Automotive Industry”, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, Friday

Seminars, 12 July 2019.

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2019 Invited presentation of “Development Beyond Economics: Cultural Nationalism to

Sustain Employment in West Bengal’s Weaving Sector at the Nordic Conference on

Development Economics 2019, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen (June 17-18, 2019).

2019 Invited presentation “Long Waves and Techno-economic Paradigms: Assessing the

Future of Work in the Indian Automotive Industry” at GERPISA’s (Groupe d'Etude et de

Recherche Permanent sur l'Industrie et les Salariés de l'Automobile) or the Permanent

Group for the Study of the Automotive Industry and its Employees conference, ENS

Cachan, Paris (June 12-14, 2019).

2018 Expert Commentary “Why does an impoverished India produce a globally mobile

wealthy class? Dialogue of Civilisations, Berlin, https://doc-research.org/2018/10/why-

does-an-impoverished-india-produce-a-globally-mobile-wealthy-class/, (October 31,

2018).

2018 Seminar on “The Rise of the Indian Wealthy Elite”, Danish Institute of International

Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark (September 17, 2018).

2018 Invited participant to “Think Development, Think WIDER” Conference of the

UNU-World Institute of Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland

(September 12-15, 2018).

2018 “Future of Work in the Automobile Industry (India)” under the auspices of

GERPISA (Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche Permanent sur l'Industrie et les Salariés de

l'Automobile) or the Permanent Group for the Study of the Automotive Industry and its

Employees, Sao Paulo, Brazil (June 11-14, 2018).

2018 Late Capitalist Development and Global Mobility: The Rise of the Indian Wealthy

and Inequality, The Investment Migration Forum: Advancing Investor Immigration and

Citizenship, Investment Migration Council, Geneva, Switzerland (June 4-6, 2018).

2018 Lecture: International Mobility of Technical Professionals from India to Japan:

Business Interfacing in a Changing Global Economy, Indian Institute of Management,

Bangalore, India (May 28).

2018 Lecture: International Mobility of Technical Professionals from India to Japan:

Showcasing Interdisciplinarity and Global Studies, School of Business, University of

Alabama, Huntsville (April 5).

2017 Seminar: “Changing Structures of Accumulation and the Global Mobility of Indian

Professionals,” School of Development Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi (November

7, 2017).

2017 Seminar: “Mobility of Indian IT Professionals in the World Economy: Current

Patterns and Possible Challenges”, International Migration Division of the Directorate for

Employment, Labor and Social Affairs, Organization for Economic Co-operation and

Development (OECD), Paris (September 28, 2017).

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2017 Seminar: “Locating Japan’s Talent Predicaments under Global Capitalism,” Asia

Research Center, Department of International Economics and Management, Copenhagen

Business School, Copenhagen (August 24, 2017).

2017 Keyword Lecture “Land”, as part of Australia India Institute’s Keyword Lecture

Series combined with a book launch, Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne

(July 20, 2017, over 80 attendees).

2017 Capitalism and Asian Experiences in Late Industrialization: A Comparative

Perspective, Asian Studies, Seattle University, Seattle (January 5).

2016 Diaspora and Techno-Economic Community: Indian IT Professionals in Japan,

Center for India and South Asian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

(November 14).

2016 Why are “Good” Jobs So Hard to Come by? Institutional Perspectives on

Employment in India, Applied Economics Seminar, Department of Economics,

University of California, Riverside (November 9).

2016 Capitalist Maturity and South Korea’s Development Conundrum, Freeman Spogli

Institute for International Studies, Shorentstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford

University, Stanford (October 14).

2016 Development and the Land Question in India, Tata-Cornell Institute of Agriculture

and Nutrition (TCI), The Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and

Management, Cornell University, Ithaca (September 30).

2016 Globalization and International Mobility (tentative) for the panel Diaspora and

Citizenship in the Age of Globalization, Bi-annual South Asian Dispaora Convention,

Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore (July 17-

20, 2016).

2016 Indian Capitalism and the Evolution of the Auto Industry, Rikkyo University,

Tokyo (June 14, 2016).

2016 Development and the Land Question Under Global Capitalism Today, Institute of

Developing Economies Advanced Studies (IDEAS), Makuhari (Tokyo) (June 10, 2016).

2016 Global Capitalism, Labor Markets, and International Mobility of Professionals in

Asia, Institute of Developing Economies, Makuhari (Tokyo) (June 10, 2016).

2016 The Indian Economy Then and Now: Challenges and Opportunities for Japan, Asia

Pacific Institute of Research, Osaka (June 8, 2016).

2016 Dynamics of Contemporary Economic Regionalization/Globalization in the Asia

Pacific Region, Kansai University, Osaka (June 7, 2016).

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2016 Studying Indian Technical Professionals in Japan, International Business Research

Seminar, Discipline of International Business, University of Sydney, Sydney (February

22, 2016).

2016 Compressed Capitalism, Employment, and the Structural Limits of the State, Harry

Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington, Seattle (January 21, 2016).

2015 Achieving Sustainable, Broad-based Development in the 21st Century Economy for

Workshop on Youth Unemployment and Job Creation”, Sejong City, Korea Development

Institute School of Public Policy and Management, Korea (December 14-18, 2015).

2015 Capitalist Maturity and South Korea’s Development Conundrum, Korea Studies

Program, University of Washington, Seattle (November 10, 2015).

2015 “Governing Capitalist Transition: The Pathology of Contemporary Labor Markets

in India” at the South Asian Studies Association of Australia Workshop Acche Din

[Good Days]? Politics and Governance in India After One Year of BJP, International

Convention of Asia Scholars 9, Adelaide (July 7, 2015)

2015 Lecture on “Employment and Social Protection in Developing Countries”,

International University of Japan, Urasa (February 9).

2015 Seminar “What is the State of Indian Higher Education and its Contribution to the

World Economy”, Academic Seminar on International Mobility of Talent, Economic

Development and the Role of Higher Education Institutions, Tohoku Creative Forum,

Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

(February 5).

2014 Lecture “Employment and Social Protection,” Global Leadership Program for the

G-20 and Peacebuilding, Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy and

Management and World Bank Global Center on Conflict, Security and Development,

Seoul (December 9, 2014).

2014 Lecture “Economic Nationalism in an Age of Turbulence”, Graduate School of

International Relations, Seoul National University, Seoul (December 9, 2014).

2014 Invited Keynote Speaker “The Jobs Question: Challenges for Indian Business”

Global Conference on Managing in Recovering Markets, Australian Center for Asian

Business, University of South Australia in collaboration with Management Development

Institute, Gurgaon, India (November 8-9).

2014 Invited Roundtable panelist “Economic Globalization and State Sovereignty”, as

part of Landscapes of Sovereignty in Asia and the Pacific (3 roundtables), 2014

Symposium of the ANU Research School of Asia and the Pacific, Canberra (October 21-

22).

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2014 “Capitalist Maturity and South Korea’s Development Conundrum”, Brown Bag

Seminar, East West Center, Honolulu (September 24).

2014 “Compressed Capitalism and the Fate of Indian Development, Department of

Political Science Colloquium, University of Hawaii, Manoa (September 19).

2013 Lecture “Employment and Social Protection,” Global Leadership Program for the

G-20 and Peacebuilding, Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy and

Management and World Bank Global Center on Conflict, Security and Development,

Seoul (December 3, 2013).

2013 Online lecture “Inclusive Development,” Global Development Learning Network,

KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Seoul (December 4, 2013).

2013 “Driving Out the Energy Future: Automobilization under Compressed Capitalism,”

Workshop on Whose Energy Future? Developmentalism, Climate Change and Energy

Policy in India and Australia, University of Technology, Sydney (August 13-14).

2013 Discussant: The India-Pakistan Conundrum by Stephen Cohen of Brookings

Institution, Danish Institute of International Studies, Copenhagen (February 15).

2013 “Will China and India Dominate the World?” Lecture, Global Executive MBA

Program, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan (January 29).

2012“Compressed Capitalism and the New India,”Summer Workshop: China and India –

Emerging Powers, ZápadočeskáUniverzita v Plzni, West Bohemia (September 4, 2012).

2012 “Problematizing the New India: A Political Economy Perspective,” Center for

South Asian Studies, Asia Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto (March 13, 2012).

SELECTED JOURNAL/FELLOWSHIP REVIEWER (TOTAL 53)

External Reviewer of Funding Project, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Bonn

European Science Foundation

Global Development Network, 2006 Selection Committee for the Annual GDN

Development Project Awards, New Delhi/Beijing for the best research paper on

“Industrial Development and Long-term Growth” category and best development

research proposal

U.S. Department of Education, Washington DC (Fulbright Group Projects grants).

Center for Global Partnerships, the Japan Foundation, New York

Reviewer of Research Proposals, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Calgary, Canada

Royalty Research Fund Scholar program, University of Washington, Seattle

Agenda Publishing (London)

Anthem Press (frequent)

Routledge, UK (frequent)

Palgrave Macmillan, UK (frequent)

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Oxford University Press, UK (frequent)

Cambridge University Press, UK

Contemporary South Asia

Migration Review

Research Policy

Socio-Economic Review

Review of International Political Economy

Business History

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Journal of Institutions and Economies

India Review

Industrial and Corporate Change

Industry and Innovation

European Journal of Development Research

Journal of International Business Studies

Journal of Asian Business

Asian Survey

Eastern Economic Journal

California Management Review

World Development

International Journal of Technology Management

International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management

Asian Business and Management

Transnational Corporations

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

Social Dialogue Sector, International Labour Office, Geneva

Scandinavian Institute of International Management, Copenhagen

United Nations University-World Institute of Development Economics Research,

Helsinki and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago,

Chile

World Bank and Social Science Research Council

Cendant Mobility, Chicago

Strategic Assessment Group, Centra Technology, Inc. Massachusetts

Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Northwestern University

SELECTED ACADEMIC CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION

(TOTAL 71)

2020 Closed Loop, Open Borders: Wealth Creation and Inequality in India for the section

on Globalization and Socio-Economic Development at the conference of the Society for

the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam

(July 18-20, 2020).

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2020 “The Statist and Diasporic Dimensions of the Private Indian IT Industry” for the

Panel on Interests, Institutions and Policies in Motion: Sectoral Governance and India’s

Accelerated Growth, International Studies Association conference, Honolulu, HI (March

25-28, 2020, Cancelled).

2018 Panel Organizer “Reconciling Growth and Welfare: State and Social Change in

Contemporary South Asia” Association of Asian Studies Conference, Washington DC

(March 22 - 25, 2018).

2018 Presented “Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles: New Perspectives on the Indian

State”, Association of Asian Studies Conference, Washington DC (March 22 - 25, 2018).

2017 Presented “A Point of No Return? Changing Structures and Jobless Growth in

India,” as part of the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and Global Challenges

Research Fund (UK) sponsored Structural Change, Inequality and Inclusive Growth:

Tensions and Trade-offs panel, EADI Nordic Conference 2017, Globalisation at the

Crossroads: Rethinking Inequalities and Boundaries (21-23 August 2017, Bergen,

Norway). Published online under Global Poverty and Inequality Dynamics Research

Network, Economic and Social Research Council, Global Challenges Research Fund,

https://www.gpidnetwork.org/research/

2017 Panel Organizer Governing Global Capitalism: State, Society, and Cultural

Nationalism, Association of Asian Studies Conference, Toronto (March 16 -19, 2017).

2017 Groping in the Dark: A Tentative Stalemate in West Bengal’s Traditional Textiles,

Association of Asian Studies Conference, Toronto (March 16 -19, 2017).

2016 Panel Organizer Global Capitalism, National Experiences, and Changing Labor

Markets in Asia, Association of Asian Studies Conference, Seattle, WA (March 31-April

3, 2016).

2016 Jobless Growth Even in Labor-Abundant India: Capitalist Transition and the

Challenges of Employment, Association of Asian Studies Conference, Seattle, WA,

(March 31-April 3, 2016).

2016 Invited Panel Participant “Asian Management Research: What Have We Achieved

and Where Can We Go?” Australia New Zealand International Business Association

(ANZIBA) conference (February 17-19, 2016).

2015 Compressed Capitalism, Employment, and the Structural Limits of the State, 2nd

International Conference on Contemporary India, Instruments of Intervention: Capitalist

Development and the Remolding of the India State, Institute of Development Studies

Kolkata, Kolkata (December 10-12, 2015).

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2015 Panel Organizer Revisiting the Role of the Indian State in Contemporary Capitalist

Development, The 44th Annual Conference on South Asia (October 22-25, 2015)

2015 “Labor Markets in Transition or Really Existing Capitalism? Structural Limits of

the Indian State in Development,” The 44th Annual Conference on South Asia (October

22-25, 2015)

2014 Presented “Labor Market Changes and Talent Crisis Japan’s IT Industry, 27th

Annual Conference Association of Japanese Business Studies, Vancouver (June 21-22).

2014 Panel Organizer “The Land Question: Opportunities, Dispossession, and

Livelihoods in Asia,” Association of Asia Studies, Philadelphia (March 27-30).

2012 “Looking East and Beyond: How India Could Leverage its IT Diaspora in Japan”

presented at Diaspora and Development: South Asian Diaspora Engagement in South

Asia’, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore (27-28

September 2012).

2012 “Compressed Capitalism in India: Is that Another Variety? Paper presented Society

for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) 24th Annual Conference, SASE

Research Network – MIT Cambridge and supported by Fondation France-Japon de

l'EHESS, Paris. (June 28-30, 2012)

2011 (with Mathew Abraham) “Liberalization, Public Sector Reforms and the

Agricultural Sector- Institutional Disequilibrium, Structural Problems and Spillover

Effects” conference on Globalization and Public Sector Reforms in India and China, Asia

Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen (September 24-25).

2011 “Institutional Change, Industrial Logics, and Internationalization: Growth of Auto

and IT Sectors in India” under Interests, Institutions and Policies in Motion:

Understanding India’s Growth Story panel, American Political Science Association,

September 1-4, 2011, Seattle, Washington.

SELECTED FACULTY GOVERNANCE AND COMMITTEES

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (2018-Current)

Eminent Scholar in Engineering, Review Committee, School of Engineering

Dean’s Review Committee, College of Business

Tenure and Promotion Committees (3)

Annual Reviews (2)

University of Melbourne (2013-2018)

Special Responsibility: India Initiative, Faculty of Arts (2017 - 18)

Director and Coordinator, Masters of Development Studies (2017- 18)

Committee Member, External Relations, School of Social and Political Sciences (2015).

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Search Panel for inaugural Director, Melbourne Asia Research Network, University of

Melbourne (February 2015).

University-wide Selection Panel Member for Asia Fellows Program, University of

Melbourne (November 2014).

University-wide Selection Panel Member for Inaugural Asia Fellows Program, University

of Melbourne (November 2013).

Search Panel Member, Professorship in International Development, Faculty of Arts,

University of Melbourne, Melbourne (August-September 2013).

Copenhagen Business School (2008-2013).

Member, President’s Strategy Task Force, Copenhagen Business School (2010)

Chair, Search Committee, PhD position in Indian Studies, Asia Research Centre

Denmark Representative to the Nordic Council of Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

CBS Representative to Nordic Center in India

CBS Representative to Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

University of Washington, Tacoma/Seattle (1990-2008)

Chair, Search Committee, Political Economy, two positions, (2007-08)

Member, Academic Council on Tenure and Promotion (1998-2004, 2006-08)

Co-chair, Search Committee, Interim Director of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

Program (2006)

Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee (2006-07)

Vice Chair, Faculty Assembly (2002-04)

Member, Executive Committee, Faculty Assembly (1999-2000, 2002-04)

Member, Faculty Council on Academic Policy, advisory body to the Vice Chancellor

(1999-04)

Chair, Three-Year Review Committee, for Urban Studies (2004)

Chair, Writing Search Committee (2003-04)

World Affairs Council, Tacoma (1998-2002)

Committee Member, Target of Opportunity Hires (2001)

Member, Curriculum Committee (2001)

Chair, Search Committee for two political economists (1999-2000)

Distinguished Teaching Award Committee

Founders' Endowment Fund Committee

Business Curriculum Development Committee

Mathematics, Computational Science and Engineering Program Development Committee

Community Relations

Library and Instructional Materials

World Trade Center, Tacoma Task Force

Arts & Lectures Committee

Chair, Faculty Affairs Committee

NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

1989-90 Administrative Coordinator/Consultant University Computing Services, Indiana

University, Bloomington

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1986-88 Research Associate at Indiana Business Research Center, Indiana University,

Bloomington.

1980-82 Research Executive at Operations Research Group, India. Completed four

project reports on rural development.

SELECTED RECENT NON-ACADEMIC BLOGS/ESSAYS/MEDIA

INTERVIEWS (TOTAL 135)

2021 Co-organized and moderated “Celebrated the Life of Martin Luther King Jr. in

2021,” with Global Ties Alabama, Huntsville (January 12, 2021).

2017 ABC Nightlife Radio Interview, India: Before and After the British Raj, Melbourne,

http://www.abc.net.au/radio/sydney/programs/nightlife/india-before-and-after-the-

raj/9213824, (November 30, 2017).

2017 Interview Collegebol.com, Part II on Contemporary India,

https://articles.collegebol.com/2017/11/indian-democracy-failed-create-inclusive-society/

(November 20, 2017).

2017 Workplace Reboot #2: The changing business of keeping that job

http://www.thecitizen.org.au/features/workplace-reboot-2-changing-business-keeping-job,

November 13, 2017).

2017 Interview Collegebol.com, Part I on Contemporary India,

https://articles.collegebol.com/2017/10/current-government-not-believe-consulting-

stakeholders-says-renowned-indologist/ (October 25, 2017).

2017 Interview by Pursuit, University of Melbourne, “Becoming Asia-capable,”

https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/becoming-asia-capable (October 2017).

2017 Blog “Dead End Development with the Land Question in India” (OUPblog),

https://blog.oup.com/2017/10/land-question-development-india/ (October 20, 2017).

2017 Podcast of an interview based on the book “The Land Question in India”, available

at: https://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/podcasts/afternoon-adda-keywords-india-land-

professor-anthony-dcosta/ (July 31, 2017).

2017 Modi, Trump and Facing Up to China, East Asia Forum,

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2017/04/21/modi-trump-and-facing-up-to-china/ (April 21,

2017).

2017 Will Park’s Impeachment Derail South Korea’s Efforts to Tackle Inequality?

World Politics Review (e-mail interview), http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-

lines/21315/will-park-s-impeachment-derail-south-korea (February 23, 2017).

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2017 Lecture: “Mobility of Technology Workers: India, the US, and Japan," American

Center, Kolkata (February 10).

2016 Is South Korea’s Meteoric Rise Losing Its Shine? East Asia Forum,

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/12/01/is-south-koreas-meteoric-rise-losing-its-shine/

(1 December 2016).

2016 Why Japan Needs India’s Talents, East Asia Forum,

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/05/03/why-japan-needs-indias-talents/ (3 May 2016).

2015 Presentation: What’s Up with Indian Higher Education? India in Focus, Australian

International Education Conference, Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide (October 6-9,

2015).

2015 An End of An Era: The Iconic Ambassador, Australia India Institute,

http://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/news/blog/end-era-iconic-ambassador (September 2015).

2015 Knowledge Powers India’s Economy: India is showing ambition in trying to create

a knowledge economy, and it’s paying off, Asia and the Pacific Policy Society,

Australian National University, http://www.policyforum.net/knowledge-powers-indias-

economy/ (July 2015).

2015 Speaking with: Anthony D'Costa on the challenges facing India’s economy, The

Conversation,

https://theconversation.com/speaking-with-anthony-dcosta-on-the-challenges-facing-

indias-economy-43913, July 3, 2015.

2014 Will growth mean more jobs? G20 Watch, Independent coverage of the G20 |

Australia 2014, http://g20watch.edu.au/will-growth-mean-more-jobs, November 14, 2014

(republished in The Drum, ABC, Australia, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-

14/dcosta-g20-should-focus-on-jobs-not-growth/5891308)

2014 New Indian PM is doing the rounds, and look what he’s getting out of it, The

Conversation, Melbourne, http://theconversation.com/new-indian-pm-is-doing-the-

rounds-and-look-what-hes-getting-out-of-it-32673, October 8, 2014.

2014 Invited presentation: “What to Expect from the New Government in India”,

Australia India Business Council, Brisbane (July 22).

2013 Moderator and Chair, “Bilateral Cooperation Opportunities in Education” and

“India Australia Strategic Partnership,” Provasi Bharatiya Divas (Overseas Indian Day),

Sydney Convention and Exhibition Center (November 10-12, 2013).

2013 Contributed “India i den globale kunnskapsøkonomien” (India in the Global

Knowledge Economy,

file:///Users/anthonydcosta/Downloads/SIU_Landrapport_India_web.pdf, in Norwegian)

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in Landrapport India, Senter for Internasjonalisering av Utdanning (Norwegian Centre for

International Cooperation in Education), Bergen, Norway.

2013 Blog “The Indian IT Industry on the Move,” on the occasion of Nandan Nilekani’s

visit to the Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne,

http://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/blog/indian-it-industry-move

2013 “Back to the Drawing Board As ‘Shining’ India Stumbles” The Conversation,

September 17, 2013, https://theconversation.com/back-to-the-drawing-board-as-shining-

india-stumbles-18090

2007 “The Looming Labor Shortage: Can India Meet Japan’s Technical Worker Needs?”

Ekonomisuto (The Weekly Economist, in Japanese), January, 2007.

1995 "Asia Gets Into Heavy Metal" Wall Street Journal, New York, October 10, 1995,

also in Asian Wall Street Journal, Hong Kong, October 2, 1995 and reprinted in Direct

from Midrex 4th Quarter, 1995.

MEDIA INTERVIEWS:

DR Radio, Copenhagen

Sky TV, Sydney

ABC TV/Radio, Melbourne/Sydney

Xinhua News, New Delhi

Lok Sabha TV, New Delhi

New York Times

Left Business Observer, New York

KING TV, Seattle

KOMO TV, Seattle

KUOW/NPR, Seattle

REFERENCES

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