The central Gujarat region of western India is home to the entrepreneurial landowning Patel caste who have leveraged their rural dominance to become a powerful global diaspora of merchants, industrialists, and professionals. Investigating the Patels intriguing ascent, Vinay Gidwani analyzes its...

Who gets rich, and why? -- Where did private equity come from? -- Who are they? -- What do they do? -- How are they any different? -- How do you study them? -- Where's the value? -- Do we even have time? -- To buy or not to buy? -- What should we think of ourselves?

Negotiating managerial labor power and value -- The (re-)emergence of entrepreneurialism in postsocialist China / Lisa Rofel -- Italian legacies of capital and labor / Sylvia Yanagisako -- One fashion, two nations : Italian-Chinese collaborations / Simona Segre Reinach -- On generation / Sylvia...