Word: ungerer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pound Professor of Law Roberto M. Unger, a Brazilian by birth, left Cambridge for Brasilia last week to enter the famously rough-and-tumble world of Brazilian politics. Unger officially assumed the title of Secretary of Long Term Planning last Tuesday...
...This is really the first time that he’s getting this close to actual policy,” said Hariri Professor of International Political Economy Dani Rodrik ’79, who has taught alongside Unger at the Kennedy School. “He’s been involved in politics on and off in Brazil for sometime…but this is obviously a tremendous chance for him to actually be in a position where he can actually get things done...
Though this is his first ministerial position, Unger is no newcomer to policy adivising in Brazil, according to Ricardo Reisen de Pinho, a senior researcher at Harvard Business School’s Latin America Research Center, which is based in Buenos Aires. Reisen de Pinho said in an e-mailed statement that “Unger has been a close adviser [to] several controversial Brazilian politicians” and has devised “innovative political ideas for the country” in the past...
Among the reforms Unger, who declined to comment for this story, has proposed in the past are the levying of a value-added tax on purchases to broaden the nation’s tax base, making education and employment legal rights, and creating a governmental agency devoted to destabilizing entrenched interests...
...said Professor Unger was getting complaints from several students that I disrupt the class and make learning difficult for them. And I was like, ‘What? I am one of the best students in the class. I actively participate and I bring up ideas that the professor finds intriguing and brilliant...