My colleague @MacabeKeliher just published this excellent article about the role of Taiwan Machinery Manufacturing Corporations, as SOE, in Taiwan's postwar economic development. Part of what he calls the "archival turn" in studies of the developmental state. Interesting stuff!
"If you’re a bright kid of modest means, which opportunities do you deserve? For most students, their state’s main public university remains their best hope of breaching the walls of class difference. As the ax falls, that idealistic mission fades, and inequalities widen."
What Happens When a Poor State Guts Its Public University . My story on a Flagship State University and working class student aspirations and faculty careers tossed aside - The Atlantic https://t.co/qruPhjFLaO
The Maura Dykstra situation is, more than anything, sad, but these two consecutive paragraphs in the Yale Daily News on the affair are among the wildest I've ever read anywhere (in large part because of the infelicitous misnaming of Macabe "Macabre" Keliher)
Hong Kong radio re-broadcast my talk on postwar industrialization and the case of Meyer Aluminum. I argue that HK acquired its manufacturing capacity through business relations with Taiwan SOEs.
https://t.co/Y70kw40Lvy