Archive for July 27th, 2008
Uruguay: The Other Side of the River
Image via Wikipedia Latin Business Chronicle. Uruguay is booming. After growing 7.2 percent y/y in 2007, the Uruguayan economy is poised to grow more than 6 percent y/y in 2008. Foreign investment is pouring into the country, taking advantage of its vast natural resources and tourism potential. Argentine farmers and international grain companies are descending [...]
Brasilia: A Vision in Concrete
The Atlantic Online From 1956 to 1960, Brazil—in an effort to cleanse itself of its colonial past, to flee its burgeoning social afflictions, and to fulfill its long-prophesied emergence as a great power—conjured a new capital, Brasília, on an empty plateau in an endless savanna 3,500 feet above sea level. The city’s planner, the architect [...]
Boss Nova:Harvard Law’s Roberto Unger takes on the future of Brazil
ChronicleReview.com Think of Roberto Mangabeira Unger as Brazil’s answer to John Stuart Mill — a century and a half later and considerably nattier — with a pronounced Nietzschean bent that drives him to certain acts of excess. Unger is not the first philosopher to snare, so to speak, a state office of his own, or [...]
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