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Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Roberto Mangabeira Unger is the author of The World and Us (Verso, 2024).
Articles by Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Overthrowing the Dictatorship of No Alternatives

The world remains restless under the yoke of a dictatorship of no alternatives. The last great moment of institutional and ideological refoundation in the rich North Atlantic countries was the institutionally conservative social democracy presaged before the Second World War and fully developed in those countries after the war. Its counterpart in the United States…

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The Knowledge Economy: A Critique of the Dominant View

The knowledge economy is the science- and technology-intensive practice of production, devoted to perpetual innovation, that has begun to assume a commanding role in all the major economies of the world. It is present in every sector of these economies—in services and even agriculture, as well as in advanced manufacturing. In each sector, however, it…

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Rethinking the Knowledge Economy

A new practice of production has emerged in all the major economies of the world. The simplest and most telling of its many names is the knowledge economy. It holds the promise of changing, to our benefit, some of the most deep-seated and universal regularities of economic life and of dramatically enhancing productivity and growth.…

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