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...have two choices - and one painful fact - to confront. The painful fact is that the 1930s option, to have the government directly employ millions of people in labor fronts, is not an option today. "There's no way to create real jobs using this approach," says Harvard professor Roberto Mangabeira Unger. In the 1930s, you could throw 10,000 people with shovels at dam or road projects. Today the work of 10,000 shovels is done by a few machines - and it was a lot easier to persuade farmers to switch to ditchdigging than it would be to get laid...
...what is being interpreted as the final straw, a long-awaited Amazon development plan was finally announced last week, not in its original form, but in a version Greenpeace called "light." To add insult to injury, Lula embarrassed Silva by handing control of the plan to Mangabeira Unger, the Special Minister for Strategic Affairs...
...humanities. Students will also have the opportunity to travel along the “Silk Road” with Mark Elliott from East Asian Languages and Civilizations and with Richard Wolf from the Music Department as their guides. Michael Puett of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Roberto Mangabeira Unger from the Law School will reflect on the contrast between two attitudes—staying out of trouble and looking for trouble—in the East and West. Sean Kelley from the Philosophy Department will offer “Existentialism in Literature and Film.” And Thomas...
...rule-breaking inventiveness must hope that this is not the end of the story. Far-reaching dissent must be combined with the development of a constructive strategy and vision. How else can the United States--or any other country--remain or become an experiment of value to humanity? Roberto Mangabeira Unger Professor...
...Vargas-Communist candidate (for vice governor of São Paulo) was taking a shellacking, although the count is not yet official. The heat might be off for the moment, but Octávio Mangabeira only worked harder. "They used to say that Brazil couldn't get rid of a dictator," he said. "Then they said we couldn't write a workable constitution. Few thought Brazil would ever again have a free press. We have done all that. Now we are faced with the fourth great step along the road to democracy-a constitutional program for governing. Brazil...