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Anthony D’Costa

Anthony D'Costa
Professor , Ph.D.
Anthony D’Costa

Asia Research Centre

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E-mail: ad.int@cbs.dk



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Affiliated with Department of International Economics and Management

Anthony P. D'Costa is a Professor in Indian Studies and Research Director at the Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School. Prior to this appointment in 2008 he was with the University of Washington for eighteen years.
Using industry studies he researches the dynamics of global and national economies, especially India and Asia. He has written extensively on global steel, Indian automobile and IT industries, globalization, development, innovations, and industrial restructuring.
Of his six books, his most recent ones are" A New India? Critical Reflections in the Long Twentieth Century" (edited 2010) and "The New Asian Innovation Dynamics: China and India in Perspective" (coedited, 2009). He is currently working on three volumes on Globalization and Economic Nationlaism in Asia, Economic and Social Transformation of China and India, and Global Capitalism and the Mobility Technical Talent.
Anthony D'Costa has been a fellow of the Japan Foundation, American Institute of Indian Studies, Fulbright-Hays, Korea Foundation, Social Science Research Council, NY, and UN University's WIDER in Helsinki and has conducted commissioned projects for the ILO, World Bank, and WIDER.
He served on the Board of Trustees the American Institute of Indian Studies and currently serves on the International Advisory Board of India-US World Affairs Institute, Washington DC.
Recently, Anthony D'Costa has given the following lectures:
  • "Compressed Capitalism and Development: Primitive Accumulation, Capitalist Maturity, and Petty Commodity Production in India and China” at the Conference of European Development Research and Training Institute (Bonn) and Development Studies Association  (UK), University of York
  • “Contemporary Capitalism and the Challenges for Inclusive Development in India,” Workshop on “Inclusive Growth in China and India,” University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  • (with Mathew Abraham, Ph.D. at ARC) “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
  • “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, Seattle, Washington
 

Primary research areas

  • Political Economy of Development
  • Indian Economic and Social Development
  • Industry Studies (steel, auto, IT)
  • Global Talent Mobility
  • Globalization of Business
  • Science, Technology and Innovations


Selected publications

Books:
2010 D'Costa, A.P. (Editor) A New India?: Critical Reflections in the Long Twentieth Century, (Foreword by Deepak Nayyar) (London: Anthem Press).
2009 Parayil, G. and D'Costa, A.P. (editors), The New Asian Innovation Dynamics: China and India in Perspective, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
2006 D'Costa, A.P. (Editor) The New Economy in Development: ICT Challenges and Opportunities, (Foreword by Matti Pohjola) (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
2005: The Long March to Capitalism: Embourgeoisment, Internationalization, and Industrial Transformation in India (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
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).
1999: The Global Restructuring of the Steel Industry: Innovations, Institutions, and Industrial Change (London: Routledge; Foreword by Amiya Kumar Bagchi).
 
Editorship:
2007: Series Editor, India and Asia in the World Economy (London: Anthem Press).
2003: Series Editor, Technology, Globalization, and Development (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) 
 
Book Chapters:
2011: "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, London: Anthem Press (forthcoming).
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. (editors), 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. (editors), 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.
2006: "Introduction: Charting a New Development Trajectory?" in D'Costa, A.P. (ed) The New Economy in Development: ICT Challenges and Opportunities, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), 1-13.
2006: "ICTs and Decoupled Development: Theories, Trajectories and Transitions" in Parayil, G. (Editor) Political Economy & Information Capitalism in India: Digital Divide, Development Divide and Equity (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), 11-34.
2006: "Globalisation of South Asia's Economies" in Singh, H. and Thomas, J. (Editors), Engaging South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities, Singapore: National University of Singapore Press.
 
Refereed Articles:
2011: Geography, Uneven Development and Distributive Justice: The Political Economy of IT Growth in India, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society (forthcoming).
2011: "Globalization, Crisis and Industrial Relations in the Indian Auto Industry," International Journal of Automotive Technology and Policy (forthcoming).
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:
2010: The Geography of Steel Industry, Warf, B. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Geography, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
2007: Steel Industry, Darity, Wiiliam A. Editor in Chief, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, Thompson Gale, Macmillan Reference, USA.
2002: Korean Steel Industry, Levinson, David and Karen Christensen, et al., Eds. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.


Last updated by Tina Forsingdal 17/11/2011