{"id":5471,"date":"2024-12-17T16:10:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/events\/event\/colloquium-speaker-series-jason-jackson\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T23:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T04:29:26","slug":"colloquium-speaker-series-jason-jackson","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/events\/event\/colloquium-speaker-series-jason-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium Speaker Series: Jason Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Taxis versus Uber: The Global Rise of Platform Firms in Urban Mobility Markets<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55867 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/01\/Headshot-Jackson.jpg\" alt=\"headshot of Jason Jackson\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The last few decades have been characterized by the return of market liberalism: the belief that national societies and the global economy can <em>and should<\/em> be organized through the institutional mechanism of \u2018self-regulating markets.\u2019 The liberal ideal may well be exemplified by the rise of platform firms that offer the promise of perfect markets through computational techniques of connecting buyers and suppliers. These firms use algorithmic processes to construct and aggregate fragmented markets, thus capturing scale economies through network effects. The allure of platforms lies in the promise of economic efficiency and political liberty by providing market actors on both sides of the platform with freedom of choice. These technologies constitute a claim to modernity that is compelling to both policymakers and the public, enabling platforms\u2019 role in the radical transformation of cities, while presenting a range of vexing challenges for democratic forms of urban governance. Platform firms claim to be technocratic and neutral even as they challenge the legitimacy of public sector control of urban spaces. This lecture focuses on the entry of ridehailing platform firms in urban mobility markets, spaces that are a variegated mix of large-scale, centralized public sector providers and relatively small, fragmented and often informal private sector players. Ridehailing\u2019s \u2018disruption\u2019 has generated diverse reactions in different political economies and labor markets in the developing and industrialized world, but a common outcome is the concentration of power in oligopolistic platform firms, the institutionalization of increasingly precarious conditions of work, and the generation of resistance \u2018from below\u2019. The research suggests that \u2018traditional\u2019 centrally planned urban mobility systems such as taxis and mass transit, and \u2018modern\u2019 urban mobility platforms thus constitute alternative modes of market governance. Yet they rely on enabling legal rules that structure the distribution of power and authority as well as material gains and losses. The role of law is intertwined with three classic dualisms in the study of markets that shape the economic order: the dualism between markets and planning, formality and informality, and monopoly and competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xxxxmsonormal\" style=\"margin: 0in\"><strong>Jason Jackson\u00a0<\/strong>is Associate Professor of Political Economy\u00a0in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and Director of the Political Economy Lab at the\u00a0Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Jason\u2019s research is broadly concerned with the relationship between states\u00a0and markets in processes of economic development and social transformation. 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:\u00a0The Role of Capitalist Legitimacy in Indian Foreign Investment Policy (Harvard University Press) and Varieties of Economic Nationalisms in Brazil and India (Cambridge University Press).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxis versus Uber: The Global Rise of Platform Firms in Urban Mobility Markets The last few decades have been characterized by the return of market liberalism: the belief that national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5472,"template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"America\/New_York","_EventStartDate":"2025-03-20 12:00:00","_EventEndDate":"2025-03-20 13:00:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2025-03-20 16:00:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2025-03-20 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