Sebastian Schwecke

Sebastian Schwecke received his Ph.D. from Leipzig University in 2010 in political science with a study on the political economy of Hindu nationalist and Islamist movements. Subsequently, he shifted to the Centre for Modern Indian Studies at Göttingen where he developed a research agenda combining social and economic history with economic anthropology. Before joining Max Weber Stiftung, he was an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His main interests relate to the study of markets and exchange, credit/debt and speculation, extra-legality, uncertainty, trust, hope, calculability, and reputation as well as labour and skill.