Juan Velarde (economist) explained
Juan Velarde Fuertes (26 June 1927 – 3 February 2023)[1] was a Spanish economist.[2] [3] He was serving as President of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
Early life and education
Juan was born in the Asturian town of Salas on June 26, 1927. (of which he was named Favorite Son). After studying at the Ramiro de Maeztu Institute, he graduated and received his doctorate with an Extraordinary Prize in Economic Sciences at the University of Madrid, with the first promotion of these studies in Spain (1956).
Career
In 1951, Fuertes entered the national body of labor inspection. He worked as the Directorate of the Institute of Labor Studies and Social Security until 1982. Throughout his life he wrote about economic issues in different media and publications, such as the Revista de Economía Política, La Hora, Alférez and Alcalá. Between 1952 and 1979 he directed the economic section of the newspaper Arriba.
From 1979 to 1986 he contributed a column in the newspaper Ya. From 1986 he collaborated regularly in the newspaper ABC. He collaborated with the current affairs magazine Época; for years published articles in articles in Expansión and a weekly Tribuna in El Economista
Works
- 'Cien años de la economía española' por Ediciones Encuentro ('One hundred years of Spanish economy' by Ediciones Encuentro) 2009[4]
Notes and References
- https://www.libremercado.com/2023-02-03/muere-el-economista-juan-velarde-6982437/ Muere el economista Juan Velarde
- Gabriel Tortella, José Luis García Ruiz Spanish Money and Banking: A History 2013 -1137317132 p129 "Soon after, Juan Velarde, a Falangist economist of great erudition, associated this oligopolistic power of the banks to the economic decline of Spain in the long term (Velarde, 1953)."
- Mauro F. Guillén, Adrian Tschoegl Building a Global Bank: The Transformation of Banco Santander 2008 1400828333 "The young economists he was referring to included the author of the book, The Power of Banks in Spain (Muñoz 1967), and his mentor, University Professor Juan Velarde Fuertes, a noted economist (see Tortella and García Ruiz 2003)."
- Luke Fog The Euro is to Blame. Economics for Spanish people 1326476831 - 2015 p102 "This process of convergence is very well explained in Juan Velarde's book called '100 Years of Spanish Economy'12."
