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Javier Mejia
@JavierMejiaC
Ph.D. in Economics | Tweets on history, networks, politics, and entrepreneurship | Teaches @Stanford | Writes Op-eds for Forbes 🇨🇴 #LatinAmerica #MiddleEast
Jun 22 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
De la Espriella’s victory was a rather unlikely one.

He defeated the candidate of a government that presided over the largest public spending in the country's history and that took an extraordinarily active role in the campaign on his rival's behalf.

🧵 Two things explain his victory

1. Widespread dissatisfaction with the performance of the current government. Many perceived Petro administration as hostile to private initiative, ineffective in addressing key public policy challenges, and tainted by repeated corruption scandals
Jan 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
In 2022, I started a podcast where I chat with the authors of, what I consider, the best new books in economic/political history

Listen to all the episodes here:
newbooksnetwork.com//hosts/profile…

Here my list of the best books of 2022:

Top 4 global history: My favorite books of 2022 on the economic/political history of non-Western societies