José Luis Sampedro

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José Luis Sampedro Sáez

José Luis Sampedro Sáez (born February 1, 1917 in Barcelona , Spain , † April 8, 2013 in Madrid ) was a Spanish economist , humanist and writer .

Life

José Luis Sampedro Sáez was born in Barcelona in 1917 and grew up in Tangier , Morocco . In 1936 he was recruited by the Republican Army for the Spanish Civil War . During the war he was stationed with his battalion in Melilla , Catalonia , Guadalajara and Huete , province of Cuenca . After training as a customs officer in Santander , he moved to Madrid, where he studied economics and passed with honors in 1947. He then got a job at Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria .

From 1955 he received a professorship for economic structure at the Complutense University of Madrid , which he held until 1969. During this time he was also visiting professor at universities in Salford and Liverpool and was a co-founder of the Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones . He lived temporarily outside of Spain and did not return until 1976. He worked as an economic advisor and was a senator in the first democratically elected Spanish parliament from 1977 to 1979 (more precisely: in the Senado (roughly: upper house)).

Sampedro published several novels and stories parallel to his business life. Since he retired, he only focused on writing. He had great success with Octubre, octubre , La sonrisa etrusca and La vieja sirena at the end of the 1980s. In 1986 his wife Isabel Pellicer, with whom he had been married since 1944, died. In 1990 he became a member of the Real Academia Española .

As a humanist, he often criticized the social and moral decline of Western society, neoliberalism and the dark side of capitalism. For the Spanish edition of the essay Outrage! by the French Stéphane Hessel (1917–2013), Sampedro wrote the foreword. In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , Sampedro criticized Europe's capitalism and compared it to the end of the Roman Empire:

“At that time it was the barbarians who invaded the Roman Empire and hollowed it out from the inside and ultimately brought it down. It was a smooth transition. And today we are experiencing again a time of transition, from a capitalist society to a technological one. There is a word for it in science: entropy. Something grows until it collapses under its own weight. "

In Germany, three of his works have been published by the Herder publishing house, The Etruscan Smile (1989) and The River That Carries Us (1993), and Goldmann Verlag's The Song of the Sirene (2005) .

Many media paid tribute to the deceased in obituaries.

Works

Reference books

  • 1957: Principios prácticos de localización industrial
  • 1959: Realidad económica y análisis estructural
  • 1967: Las fuerzas decisivas de la economía mundial
    • Driving forces of the world economy , Kindler Verlag (1967), 255 pages
  • 1973: Conciencia del subdesarrollo
  • 1976: Inflación: una versión completa
  • 2002: El mercado y la globalización
  • 2003: Los mongoles en Baghdad
  • 2006: Sobre política, mercado y convivencia
  • 2009: Economía humanista. Algo más que cifras

Novels

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

stories

  • 1992: Mar al fondo
  • 1993: Mientras la tierra gira

Other works

  • 2005: Escribir es vivir (autobiography, together with Olga Lucas)
  • 2008: La ciencia y la vida (conversation with cardiologist Valentín Fuster, edited by Olga Lucas)
  • 2011: Reacciona

Web links

Commons : José Luis Sampedro  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.ceit.es (homepage)
  2. ↑ It's also a crisis of culture - A conversation with the economist and writer José Luis Sampedro about Spain's desperate situation and the question of what should become of Europe, Interview by Nahuel Lopez , Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , April 7, 2013. faz.net : How Europe became a casino
  3. ↑ faz.net: How Europe became a casino (interview shortly before his death); stern.de: Sharp tongue against capitalism ; sueddeutsche.de: Against the "always more" ; Tagesanzeiger.ch: Author José Luis Sampedro is dead
personal data
SURNAME Sampedro, José Luis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sampedro Sáez, José Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish economist, humanist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona , Spain
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 2013
Place of death Madrid