José Luis Sampedro

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José Luis Sampedro Sáez

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]

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

Principios prácticos de localización industrial (1957)
Realidad económica y análisis estructural (1959)
Las fuerzas económicas de nuestro tiempo (1967)
Conciencia del subdesarrollo (1973)
Inflación: una versión completa (1976)
El mercado y la globalización (2002)
Los mongoles en Bagdad (2003)
Sobre política, mercado y convivencia (2006)
Economía humanista. Algo más que cifras (2009)
El mercado y nosotros

Novels

La estatua de Adolfo Espejo (1939) -unpublished 1994–
La sombra de los días (1947) -unpublished 1994–
Congreso en Estocolmo (1952)
El río que nos lleva (1961)
El caballo desnudo (1970)
Octubre, octubre (1981)
La sonrisa etrusca (1985)
La vieja sirena (1990)
Real Sitio (1993)
El amante lesbiano (2000)
La senda del drago (2006)
Cuarteto para un solista (2011) -collaboration with Olga Lucas-

Tales

Mar al fondo (1992)
Mientras la tierra gira (1993)

Other works

Escribir es vivir (2005) -autobiography written with Olga Lucas-
La escritura necesaria (2006) -essay-dialogue on his novels and his life.
La ciencia y la vida (2008) -dialogue next to the cardiologist Valentin Fuster ordered by Olga Lucas-
Reacciona (2011)

References

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Name	Sampedro,José Luis
Alternative names
Short description	Spanish writer
Date of birth	1 February 1917
Place of birth	Barcelona, Spain
Date of death	7 April 2013
Place of death	Madrid, Spain

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