RE: Doug Henwood/Mark Jones exchange (from LBO-Talk)

["Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" <gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

En relación a RE: Doug Henwood/Mark Jones exchange (from LBO-Ta,
el 30 Apr 00, a las 21:18, Mark Jones dijo:

> Nestor  dijo:
> >
> > > Well, well, Nestor, you continue to surprise me with your elegant
> > > thought-processes. But what does this exactly mean:
> > >
> > > > The whole long debate on the autonomy of economic forces, a debate
> > > > where the Soviet bureaucracy put to work some of the best minds in
> > > > economic policy of their time (Varga, Lange, and others), would have
> > > > been spared with just presenting the points of view of Social
> > > > Democrat economists, such as the Swedish school of welfare state
> > > > economics.
> > >
>
> Well, no sabres intended, just clarification sought. And thank you.
>
> I agree entirely and I'm gonna quote myself to prove it (sorry for
> repetition):
>

Yes, I had forgotten that mail by you, which was excellent almost to
the last letter. OK. Hope I clarified, then.

>
> PS what's a facon anyway?
>

It is a Portuguese word that has entered Argentinian (and River
Plate) rural language. Originally it is facão, meaning "large knife".
It became the basic knife of the _gaucho_, particularly useful for
dealing with cattle and meat. It was used in a special kind of duel,
the "duelo criollo", a practice that in the Argentina of the later
decades of the 19th. Century was quite mixed with politics. Sometimes
you had to win an election "a punta de facón", that is by the point
of the large knife!






Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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