José Silva Lopes left after 82 years. And, once again, Portugal lost. It was on Thursday, after the filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira death, which Portugal knew more this news, this time by the Bank of Portugal. From economics to politics, the reactions to death of him who had been Minister of Finance, governandor the Bank of Portugal, European Bank for Reconstruction administrator and Development (EBRD), the representative of Portugal to the World Bank, among other positions, did not wait.
The President of the Republic, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, mourned the loss of a “exception economist” and a “reference summit of the Portuguese economic thought.” About it, wrote on the Presidency website: “With the death of José da Silva Lopes, Portugal loses one of its most authoritative, respected and credible voices in the economic sphere, which has always distinguished itself for independence and rigor.”
Also the Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said he had received “with great sadness” the economist’s death the news, which he describes as “a man with enormous prestige in economics and finance “. “Dr. Silva Lopes has always guided its intervention by the exemption and correction in numerous professional and civic activities to which he was loigado over many years,” said in a note on the death of former finance minister and former governor of the Bank of Portugal (1975-1980).
The same feeling about the death of economist came to the Socialist Party. The general secretary of the party, António Costa, also stressed the “brilliant career” in the service of national economic development. Speaking to Lusa agency, stressed that Silva Lopes “served the country dedicated and relevant way, or as part of various interim governments and III Constitutional Government, and as Governor of the Bank of Portugal.”
“José da Silva Lopes RIP”
In the area of economics, where he excelled, several voices said goodbye to Silva Lopes, with a tribute . “I met Silva Lopes in 1976, when I joined a group of MIT students who spent the summer working at the Bank of Portugal, which was governor at the time.” That’s how the American economist and Nobel Economics prize, Paul Krugman, recalled the Portuguese, a text written in his blog, entitled “José da Silva Lopes RIP” (Rest in Peace, “rest in peace” in Portuguese) . “Working with Silva Lopes was one of the main events” that stay in Portugal, he said.
Krugman believes that “the world has lost a great, good and incredibly kind man,” recalling it as “a Portuguese economist who played a crucial role in the conduct of their country to the community democratic Europe. ”
Here in Portugal, the president and former president of the Institute of Economics and Management (ISEG), Mario Caldeira and John Duke, respectively, say goodbye to the economist. “Outstanding” and “the first portuguese doctorate ‘honoris causa’ by ISEG,” are the words that Mario boiler uses to describe. “
Have John Duke highlights the” very high intellectual honesty “. And sharing the lessons learned with him.” From him I learned that it was more important to show our indiviual analysis capability and our contribution because we think with our own heads (…) than follow certain guidelines policies like to serve economists to implement certain types of decisions or guidelines.
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