Kevin Keller
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@KevinBKeller
Fellow at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School. Researching history of international and comparative law, economic development.
The final version of the paper is now published and live, with a greatly expanded application section and some new historical finds. Thanks to everyone who gave me comments and workshopped the piece with me—it’s so much better for everyone’s input! yalelawjournal.org/pdf/01KQD1GF3G…
2/ In brief, the paper shows that in the 1980s and 1990s the World Bank helped the Chinese government strengthen Chinese state-owned enterprises. This is surprising because, in most of the rest of the world, the Bank pushed governments to privatize their SOEs.
Delighted to be on this list! My paper "The World Bank and the Origins of Chinese State Capitalism," is forthcoming in the Berkeley Journal of International Law. Getting to the draft requires a lot of clicking around, so I thought I'd pull out my most widely relevant arguments.
The intricate patterns of the Alhambra. The Knicks’ ability to blow a fourth-quarter lead. The volume and quality of scholarship being produced by the LPE community. Some things you have to see to believe. Don't miss our spring scouting report on the hottest new LPE articles🔥🔥
How did Chinese state-owned enterprises become some of the world's largest corporations? My latest paper (finally posted on SSRN!) tackles the question.
Unfathomably bleak.
