[Marxism] Re: Celso Furtado

["Carlos Eduardo Rebello" <crebello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Celso Furtado obituary by Sue Branford is surprisingly good, specially
becayse it catches Furtado for what he actually was: an exceedigly
courteous, humble man, a public servant and an old-fashioned patrot who
loved Brazil with every fiber of his heart. Also, he was, ideologically
speaking, a plain liberal, a Keynesian economist of the old veriety who was
also an humanist and a superb writer - a liberal-democratic bourgeois  made
to appear as a radical in the backdrop of Brazilian history of the time.

By the way, in the letters Keynes wrote to his colleague Robertson during
the Breton Woods talks, during which he had contacts with some of the future
Brazilian Czars of Finance , he couldn't help calling them economic
ignoramuses and puppets for US interests; a pity , then, he never came to
meet Furtado, in whom he would have recognized a man made on his own mould
(or perhaps better.....)

CR

> Message: 10
> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:35:39 -0500
> From: Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Marxism] Celso Furtado
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> Obituary
> Celso Furtado
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> An economist who offered radical interventionist policies for Brazil
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> Sue Branford
> Friday November 26, 2004
> The Guardian



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