Fede 🌹 in his British era
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He/him • Colombian-Italian 🇨🇴🇮🇹🇺🇳 • BA History @YorkHistoryDept MSc Economic History @LSEEcHist • Personal views on current affairs, history & other stuff
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Fede 🌹 in his British era The "adults in the room" type center right types will always back right wing militarism over even center left politics
🚨New WP Alert🚨 Jen-Kuan Wang and I analyze Taiwan's 1950s land reform, long seen as central to its economic takeoff—and to the East Asian Miracle. By digitizing archival data, we bring new causal evidence to the table. What we find is surprising! oliverwkim.com/papers/KimWang…
I've read through Oliver Kim and Jen-Kuan Wang's paper. In short, this empirical study is groundbreaking. It provides evidence for what some historians have been arguing: Taiwan's land reform success has been exaggerated and turned into a miracle narrative. Thread (1/15)