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Kevin Keller

@kbkeller.bsky.social

Fellow at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School. Researching history of international and comparative law, economic development. www.kevin-keller.com

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Read more here! (My author page; the paper page is not working 😎) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...

11.02.2026 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is obviously one piece of a very large puzzle. But it's an interesting piece. It improves our understanding of how the global economy worked during the era of "neoliberalism," and it suggests new reasons for the current global turn to state capitalism.

11.02.2026 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I describe how the World Bank in the 1980s and 1990s helped Chinese leaders reform and strengthen state-owned enterprises. This is interesting because across much of the rest of the Global South, the World Bank (together with the IMF) pushed strongly for privatization.

11.02.2026 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How did Chinese state-owned enterprises become some of the world's largest corporations? My latest paper (finally posted on SSRN!) tackles the question.

11.02.2026 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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