José Luis Sampedro

José Luis Sampedro Sáez
José Luis Sampedro
Born (1917-02-01)1 February 1917
Barcelona, Spain
Died 8 April 2013(2013-04-08) (aged 96)
Madrid, Spain
Occupation Economist, writer
Known for Human rights advocacy

José Luis Sampedro Sáez (Barcelona, 1 February 1917 – Madrid, 8 April 2013[1]) was a Spanish economist and writer who advocated an economy "more humane, more caring, able to help develop the dignity of peoples". Academician of the Real Academia Española since 1990,[2] he was the recipient of the Order of Arts and Letters of Spain, the Menéndez Pelayo International Prize (2010) and the Spanish Literature National Prize (2011).[2] He became an inspiration for the anti-austerity movement in Spain.[3]

Biography

He was born in Barcelona, but at the age of 13 he moved to Tangier, Morocco. He fought in the Spanish Civil War, in Republican Forces. Sampedro was a teacher at the Complutense University of Madrid, among others, and got a job in Banco Exterior de España (now, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria).

He practiced a critical humanism about the moral and social decline of the Western world, neoliberalism and wild capitalism. Sampedro wrote the prologue to the Spanish edition of the book Time for Outrage!, by Stéphane Hessel.

Works

About economy

Novels

Tales

Other works

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